Gender Interaction Effects on Reporting Assaults to the Police

This study used two theoretical perspectives—coercive power and gender norms—to examine how gender affects victims’ decisions to report physical assaults to the police. The coercive power perspective attributes gender differences in reporting to sex-linked physical coercive power differences that af...

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Authors: Hullenaar, Keith L. (Author) ; Ruback, Richard Barry 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of interpersonal violence
Year: 2021, Volume: 36, Issue: 23/24, Pages: NP12997-NP13027
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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