Localized practices and globalized futures: challenges for Alaska coastal community youth

An article from Maritime Studies (2015) 14:

The International Dating Violence Study: Preliminary results on rates of physical and sexual assault in nine countries

Conference Theme: European Criminology: Sharing Borders, Sharing a DisciplinePanel 2.4 - International Measures of CrimeNumerous studies in the USA and Canada have found an extremely high prevalence of physical and sexual assault on dating partners by university students; for example, rates of physical assault of 20 to 40% in the previous 12 months are typical in the USA. One purpose of the International Dating Violence Study is to examine the extent to which these high rates are found in other countries. The second, and most important purpose is to test theories purporting to explain this phenomenon. The study will include over 30 countries. This paper presents data for the first seven sites to provide data: Montreal and Winnipeg, Canada; Hong Kong, China; Ciudad Juarez, Mexico; Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Fribourg, Switzerland.(French and German speakers), Separate rates will be presented for male and female offenders and for minor and severe levels of physical assault, injury, and sexual coercion

Measuring Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The ATT-IPV Scale

In lower-income settings, women more often than men justify intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet, the role of measurement invariance across gender is unstudied. We developed the ATT-IPV scale to measure attitudes about physical violence against wives in 1,055 married men and women ages 18-50 in My Hao district, Vietnam. Across 10 items about transgressions of the wife, women more often than men agreed that a man had good reason to hit his wife (3 % to 92 %; 0 % to 67 %). In random split-half samples, one-factor exploratory factor analysis (EFA) (N 1 = 527) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (N 2 = 528) models for nine items with sufficient variability had significant loadings (0.575-0.883; 0.502-0.897) and good fit (RMSEA = 0.068, 0.048; CFI = 0.951, 0.978, TLI = 0.935, 0.970). Three items had significant uniform differential item functioning (DIF) by gender, and adjustment for DIF revealed that measurement noninvariance was partially masking men’s lower propensity than women to justify IPV. A CFA model for the six items without DIF had excellent fit (RMSEA = 0.019, CFI = 0.994, TLI = 0.991) and an attitudinal gender gap similar to the DIF-adjusted nine-item model, suggesting that the six-item scale reliably measures attitudes about IPV across gender. Researchers should validate the scale in urban Vietnam and elsewhere and decompose DIF-adjusted gender attitudinal gaps