SPOUSAL VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF WOMEN’S VICTIMIZATION

• Main Author: T. V. Shipunova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Publishing House of Lomonosov Moscow State University 2017-04-01
• Series: Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Seriâ 18, Sociologiâ i Politologiâ
• Subjects: spousal violence; criminal and everyday violence; victimization; contextual analysis; construction violence
• Online Access: https://vestnik.socio.msu.ru/jour/article/view/204

The article deals with spousal violence against women. Criminal and everyday aspects of conjugal violence highlighted. Criminal violence is reflected in the crime statistics. Everyday aspect includes impostored and indifference violence. The author distinguishes four contexts in which spousal violence is unfolding: sociocultural (class structure of society, settings and attitudes towards violence, etc.); family (the modern family structure, family relationships and their dynamics, and others); individual (prescribed cultural understanding of the strengths and weaknesses, self-esteem and self-control, etc.); crisis (means and opportunities to establish and maintain non-conflict situation in the family, reduced resistance to the couple in crisis situations, etc.). The article presents the results of empirical research of problem of spousal violence youth too. The study found gender differences in the perception and evaluation of the problem of conjugal violence, the differences in the assessment methods of spousal violence, etc.