Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Relationship between two types of help seeking behaviour in domestic violence victims
Other Titles:	Journal of family violence
Authors:	Massey, Erin Scott, Rachel Hollenshead, Jean H Dai, Yong Ragsdale, Mary Katherine
Keywords:	Cross-cultural;Community education;Prevention
Year:	2006
Publisher:	Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers
Citation:	21 (4), 2006
Notes:	A coordinated community response system to the help-seeking behaviors of domestic violence victims is critical to minimize the impact of violent events and to educate the public, so that safe and effective conflict management skills may replace violent responses. The focus for the present study is to identify and analyze victims’ choices of law enforcement assistance in stopping the violence and/or aid through the services of the regional family violence center. Some victims select legal channels of support; others rely exclusively on social service support, and others seek assistance from both sources. Characteristics of victims whose cases followed two types of help-seeking behavior patterns—legal support or social support–were determined through archived data from both the records of a regional family violence center (FVC) (n=258) and domestic violence incident reports of a police department serving a city of approximately 200,000 citizens (n=127). Findings indicate that African American victims more frequently sought protection through law enforcement sources than they did through family violence center services, and the reverse was true for Euro-Americans. [?2006 Springer. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SpringerLink.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16586
ISSN:	0885-7482
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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