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Economic Distress, Community Context, and Intimate Violence in the United States, 1988 and 1994

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Principal Investigator(s): Benson, Michael L.; Fox, Greer Litton

Summary: Because of their restricted access to financial resources, couples undergoing economic distress are more likely to live in disadvantaged neighborhoods than are financially well-off couples. The link between individual economic distress and community-level economic disadvantage raises the possibility that these two conditions may combine or interact in important ways to influence the risk of intimate violence against women. This study examined whether the effect of economic distress on int... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03410.v1

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