TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Who should play a major role in responding to intimate partner violence? A comparison of Chinese and American college students' preferences JO - International social work A1 - Li, Jessica C. M. A1 - Wu, Yuning A1 - Sun, Ivan Y. SP - 743 EP - 760 VL - 56 IS - 6 N2 - Using survey data collected from 639 students in a Chinese university and an American university, this study assesses students' preferences for private, parochial, and public responses to intimate partner violence (IPV). The results show that Chinese students are in favor of a parochial approach, whereas American students prefer a criminal justice intervention to IPV. Preferences for different responses to IPV are predicted by locality, respondents' attitudes toward gender roles, tolerance for violence, and awareness of IPV. Implications for policies and practices to handling IPV in both societies are offered.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0020-8728 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872811433136 ID - ref1 ER -