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Book Culture and Intimate Partner Violence

Download or read book Culture and Intimate Partner Violence written by Hong Viet Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been shown to be a significant problem in Asian American communities. Further, victimization may be particularly significant among Asian American college women due to data suggesting that many women experience their first victimization during college. Asian cultural norms regarding the interdependence construct loss of face and the construction of family dynamics have been proposed to decrease women's likelihood to disclose, terminate the relationship, and access help in response to IPV. In addition to cultural level factors, individual level factors have also been shown to significantly impact women's responses to IPV. Childhood abuse (CA) and a history of IPV have been shown to increase women's risk for IPV victimization. Given the significance of the cultural and individual level influences on women's responses to IPV, this dissertation examined these associations through 3 empirical studies. To understand women's responses in acute IPV situations, we used an escalating hypothetical IPV scenario to activate acute visceral states to assess in-the-moment responses. The first study was a qualitative examination of Asian American college women's responses to the IPV scenario. We explored women's behavioral intentions, their perception of the perpetrator, and their attributions of the cause of violence in the scenario. The second study tested three models examining cultural predictors of Asian American college women's in-the-moment responses the IPV scenario. The associations among loss of face, acculturation, three behavioral intentions (soothe, escape, and escalation/resistance), current and future risk perception, and the likelihood of staying in the relationship were examined. The third study tested three models examining trauma history as predictors of Asian American college women's in-the-moment responses to the IPV scenario. We examined the associations among CA, IPV, posttraumatic stress symptoms, three behavioral intentions (soothe, escape, and escalation/resistance), current and future risk perception, and the likelihood of staying in the relationship. This dissertation provides a number of significant contributions to the field of IPV. Since extant research has mostly examined the dichotomy of staying or leaving behaviors in regards to IPV, this was the first project to examine multiple in-the-moment behavioral intentions and risk perception. Further, this was the first project to examine the effects of cultural factors on in-the-moment risk perception and behavioral intentions among Asian Americans. Our findings extend previous research and provide further knowledge to aide in the development of culturally sensitive prevention and intervention programs for Asian Americans.

Book In the Adopted Land

Download or read book In the Adopted Land written by Hoan Bui and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the experiences of Vietnamese immigrant women who have experienced intimate violence in the United States. It focuses on the diversity of their responses to abuse and their various encounters with the criminal justice system and victim service agencies. Also revealed are the effects of traditional culture, acculturation, and economic adaptation on the participation of these women as witnesses in the criminal justice process. It points to the roles of gender, economic power, legal status, and the organizational structure of the criminal justice system in shaping the experiences of women charged with domestic violence. The limitations of the criminal justice are exposed when it fails to provide abused women with long term protection, forces women to choose between personal safety and family life, and allows domestic violence laws to reinforce male domination. This work is among the few that highlights the need for more research into how the United States criminal justice system's policies affect abused Vietnamese immigrant women's safety and family lives. It incorporates interviews from women living in various communities in the United States. Professionals, victim advocates, social scientists, and students in criminal justice, justice studies, women's studies, and social work programs will all benefit from this insightful book.

Book The Impacts of Acculturation on Vietnamese Women in the United States

Download or read book The Impacts of Acculturation on Vietnamese Women in the United States written by Dianna Hoang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, society has presented women as secondary to men. As the times change so have the roles of men and women. Vietnamese American women bear the struggle of living two worlds, but in one location, America. Before Vietnamese refugees and immigrants entered the United States, they only knew their own traditional culture. Upon arrival in their new country they had to assimilate to the modern culture of America. Every day they are reminded of their constant struggle of identification, what makes them Vietnamese or American? For the purpose of this exploratory study, 30 Vietnamese women voluntarily participated in the survey. This self-composed survey aimed to explore topics of acculturation such as language, communication, and culture, perspective on family and women's roles, as well as education. From the findings of this study, one could state that these women still encourage their traditional culture, but realize that they must also adapt to American culture as well. Vietnamese women are no longer remaining in the home as housewives, but are inspired to attain an education and work outside of the home. They must learn to adjust in order to maintain both cultures, holding on to the importance of family, but becoming more independent.

Book The Handbook of Race  Ethnicity  Crime  and Justice

Download or read book The Handbook of Race Ethnicity Crime and Justice written by Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations. It covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system. Through acknowledging that some groups, especially people of color, are disproportionately influenced more than others in the case of criminal justice reactions, the “War on Drugs”, and hate crimes; this Handbook introduces the importance of studying race and crime so as to better understand it. It does so by recommending that researchers concentrate on ethnic diversity in a national and international context in order to broaden their demographic and expand their understanding of how to attain global change. Featuring contributions from top experts in the field, The Handbook of Race and Crime is presented in five sections—An Overview of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice; Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime; Race, Gender, and the Justice System; Gender and Crime; and Race, Gender and Comparative Criminology. Each section of the book addresses a key area of research, summarizes findings or shortcomings whenever possible, and provides new results relevant to race/crime and justice. Every contribution is written by a top expert in the field and based on the latest research. With a sharp focus on contemporary race, ethnicity, crime, and justice studies, The Handbook of Race and Crime is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars interested in the disciplines such as Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Race and the Justice System, and the Sociology of Race.

Book Ethnicities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubén G. Rumbaut
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2001-09-10
  • ISBN : 9780520230125
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Ethnicities written by Rubén G. Rumbaut and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume probe systematically and in depth the adaptation patterns and trajectories of concrete ethnic groups. They provide a close look at this rising second generation by focusing on youth of diverse national origins—Mexican, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Filipino, Vietnamese, Haitian, Jamaican and other West Indian—coming of age in immigrant families on both coasts of the United States. Their analyses draw on the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, the largest research project of its kind to date. Ethnicities demonstrates that, while some of the ethnic groups being created by the new immigration are in a clear upward path, moving into society's mainstream in record time, others are headed toward a path of blocked aspirations and downward mobility. The book concludes with an essay summarizing the main findings, discussing their implications, and identifying specific lessons for theory and policy.

Book Sourcebook on Violence Against Women

Download or read book Sourcebook on Violence Against Women written by Claire M. Renzetti and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of this comprehensive volume covers the current state of research, theory, prevention, and intervention regarding violence against women. The book’s 15 chapters are divided into three parts: theoretical and methodological issues in researching violence against women; types of violence against women; and, new to this edition, programs that work. Featuring new chapters, pedagogy, sections on controversies in the field, and autobiographical essays by leaders in grassroots anti-violence work, the Third Edition has been designed to encourage discussion and debate, to address issues of diversity and cultural contexts, and to examine inequalities of race and ethnicity, social class, physical ability, sexual orientation, and geographic location.

Book Australians   Attitudes to Violence Against Women and Gender Equality

Download or read book Australians Attitudes to Violence Against Women and Gender Equality written by Kim Webster and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research Awards Index

Download or read book Research Awards Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Vietnam

Download or read book Understanding Vietnam written by Neil L. Jamieson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely.

Book Batterer Intervention

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry Murphy Healey
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 1999-07
  • ISBN : 0788178695
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Batterer Intervention written by Kerry Murphy Healey and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Batterer Intervention: Program Approaches and Criminal Justice Strategies" is a publication of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) in Rockville, Maryland. The publication provides judges, prosecutors, and probation officers with the information they need to better understand batterer intervention and make appropriate decisions regarding programming.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health written by Seth J. Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health brings together acculturation theory and methodology with work linking acculturative processes to overall health outcomes. The blending of these two streams of literature is critical to move advances in acculturation theory and research into practical application for researchers, practitioners, educators, and policy makers.

Book Behind Closed Doors

Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Murray A. Straus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war is the powerful message of "Behind Closed Doors". The book is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a seven-year study of over 2,000 families, the authors provide landmark insights into this phenomenon of violence and what causes Americans to inflict it on their family members. The authors explore the relationship between spousal abuse and child abuse as well as abuse between siblings, violence by children against their parents, and the causes and effects of verbal abuse. Taken together, their analysis provides a vivid picture of how violence is woven into the fabric of family life and why the hallmark of family life is both love and violence. This is a comprehensive, highly readable account of interest to both the professional and the lay-person on an important topic, which concerns the social well-being of us all.

Book Sociological Abstracts

Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Book Acculturation

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W. Berry
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-29
  • ISBN : 1108605230
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Acculturation written by John W. Berry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acculturation is the process of group and individual changes in culture and behaviour that result from intercultural contact. These changes have been taking place forever, and continue at an increasing pace as more and more peoples of different cultures move, meet and interact. Variations in the meanings of the concept, and some systematic conceptualisations of it are presented. This is followed by a survey of empirical work with indigenous, immigrant and ethnocultural peoples around the globe that employed both ethnographic (qualitative) and psychological (quantitative) methods. This wide-ranging research has been undertaken in a quest for possible general principles (or universals) of acculturation. This Element concludes with a short evaluation of the field of acculturation; its past, present and future.

Book Handbook of Asian American Psychology

Download or read book Handbook of Asian American Psychology written by Frederick T. L. Leong and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of the Handbook of Asian American Psychology fills a fundamental gap in the Asian American literature by addressing the full spectrum of methodological, substantive, and theoretical areas related to Asian American Psychology. This new edition provides important scholarly contributions by a new generation of researchers that address the shifts in contemporary issues for Asians and Asian Americans in the U.S.