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Dissertation
Men in domestic violence and its prevention: a mixed methods study
Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.), Drexel University
Dec 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00010827
Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence (DV) has been a human rightsand public health issue of research and prevention advocacy for more than half a century. Still, most studies and interventions target understanding the needs of victims (typically women) despite men's abuse being in critical need of behavioral modification. This mixed methods dissertation, comprised of one quantitative chapter and two qualitative chapters, addressed men's under-engagement in IPV research and prevention in the following ways: 1. Examined whether men's self-reported perpetration of IPV was prospectively associated with their perceived available social support (n=197). 2. Explored how current U.S. domestic violence prevention policy includes men, and 3. Described the experiences and perspectives of policemen who work in domestic violence response (n=20). Results from each of these three studies were as follows: Men who reported abusing their partners in the last six months showed greater statistically significant odds of asking police for help than men who reported perpetrating no partner abuse. In two U.S. state domestic violence prevention policies, men's abuse and roles in prevention work were scarcely represented particularly in proportion to men's disproportionate abuse of women. Finally, policemen participants described how they suffer physical and mental health risks from responding to domestic violence, and they recognize that men's violent behaviors and breadwinning roles exacerbate domestic violence. Overall findings show linkages between men's abuse, how prevention plans include men, and policemen's first responder perspectives on domestic violence. This dissertation contributes much-needed practice-based evidence from the front line of IPV/DV response to the public health discourse on prevention. The results can be useful to policymakers, funders, domestic violence prevention practitioners, researchers, and first responders.
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- Title
- Men in domestic violence and its prevention
- Creators
- Jennifer Rachael HaileSelasse
- Contributors
- Allison K. Groves (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vi, 94 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; Community Health and Prevention; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991022019219904721