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Community Crime Prevention and Intimate Violence in Chicago, 1995-1998

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Principal Investigator(s): Block, Carolyn Rebecca; Skogan, Wesley G.

Summary: This study sought to answer the question: If a woman is experiencing intimate partner violence, does the collective efficacy and community capacity of her neighborhood facilitate or erect barriers to her ability to escape violence, other things being equal? To address this question, longitudinal data on a sample of 210 abused women from the CHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH RISK STUDY, 1995-1998 (ICPSR 3002) were combined with community context data for each woman's residential neighborhoo... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03437.v1

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