Citation

Allen E, Bradley MS. Vict. Offender 2018; 13(3): 373-389.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15564886.2017.1340383

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The authors compare third-party evaluations of male violence against women and female violence against men with regard to perceived injury severity, criminal labeling, and recommending police contact. They determine if victim-offender gender directly influences third-party perceptions of injury, and test whether injury mediates victim-offender gender effects on assessments. Injury perception mediated but could not fully explain differences in labeling. Differences in police contact support remained significant after taking injury perceptions into account. Male and female respondents differed in injury evaluations in acts with male victims or female perpetrators, but not in injury rating of male perpetrator or female victim violence.

FINDINGS suggest gender stereotypes directly and indirectly influence third-party observers of violence, shaping assessments of injury and ability or willingness to criminalize violence.

Language: en

Keywords

Domestic violence; gender; intervention; intimate partner violence