title: Public responses to intimate partner violence: comparing preferences of Chinese and American college students.
abstract: Based on data collected from college students in Beijing and Hong Kong (China) and in Newark and Detroit (United States), this study assesses and explains citizen preferences of 2 major formalized responses to intimate partner violence (IPV)--law enforcement and social services intervention--in a cross-cultural context. Results show that Chinese respondents have lower support for law enforcement responses. Regional variation is only observed within China with students from Hong Kong supporting both law enforcement and social services responses more than their Beijing counterparts. Results also show that social attitudinal variables--including male dominance ideology, perceptions of IPV causation, support for the criminalization of IPV, and tolerance of IPV--influence public preferences of responses to IPV more than do demographic and experiential variables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. yuningwu@wayne.edu
authors.forename: Yuning
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Deeanna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Button
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Smolter
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poteyeva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012938:Social Perception; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult