Abstract
This study examines descriptive information for rural White (n∈=∈371), urban White (n∈=∈254), and urban African American (n∈=∈103) women with protective orders on relationship characteristics, victimization experiences, protective order stipulations and violations, and self-reported effectiveness of the orders. Results indicate that women, regardless of group, reported high rates of physical and psychological violence. Although the majority of the women reported the protective order was effective, almost one in four women reported their partner had violated the order even though the order had only been in effect an average of five weeks. The rural White women reported longer involvement in the violent relationship, worse economic circumstances, more victimization, more protective order stipulations, and feeling less safe compared to the urban groups. The urban White and the urban African American women in this sample were very similar with regard to self-reported relationship and socioeconomic characteristics as well as on perceptions of protective order effectiveness and satisfaction.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 237-246 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Family Violence |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The research for and preparation of this article were supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Grant Number AA12735-01 and the University of Kentucky General Clinical Research Organization funded by the National Institute of Health Grant #M01RR02602. T.Logan(*).J.Cole.L.Shannon.R.Walker Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky, 1141 Red Mile Rd., Ste. 201, Lexington, KY 40504, USA e-mail: [email protected]
Keywords
- African American women
- Partner violence
- Restraining orders
- Rural women
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Law