RT Article
T1 Women’s disengagement from legal proceedings for intimate partner violence in Southern Spain: variables related to legal proceedings
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 65
IS 13
SP 1873
OP 1895
A1 García Jiménez, María Encarna
A2 Cala, Maria Jesus
A2 Trigo, M. Eva
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1677607025
AB This article studies the relationship between a set of variables related to the legal process and women’s disengagement from legal proceedings against their (ex)partners in Southern Spain. A total of 345 women answered a questionnaire. Results evidenced that request for a protection order (PO), granting such PO, imprisonment of the offender, and women’s perception of who decided during the process were significantly related to disengagement (medium effect size). In addition, a logistic regression model was developed to predict disengagement with two variables: granting a PO and women’s perception of who decided. Results are interpreted in terms of the necessity that the judicial system gives support, protects, and provides women with opportunities to participate in the recovery process.
K1 Violence against women
K1 Intimate partner violence
K1 Abandon prosecution
K1 Protection order
K1 Logistic regression model
K1 Häusliche Gewalt
K1 Intimpartnergewalt
DO 10.1177/0011128718789857