Social Disadvantage and Family Violence: Neighborhood Effects on Attitudes about Intimate Partner Violence and Corporal Punishment

The informal social control of intimate

The informal social control of intimate partner violence against women: Exploring personal attitudes and perceived neighborhood social cohesion

✍ Victoria Frye 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 151 KB

## Abstract Intimate partner violence against women is a major public health and social problem. However, our understanding of how the geographic community or neighborhood influences its distribution is underdeveloped. In contrast, there is accumulating evidence that neighborhood characteristics, s