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Ferreira, Regardt J.; Buttell, Frederick P. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the psychosocial predictors of propensity for abusiveness among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis of 485 women.…
Descriptors: Females, Family Violence, Dropouts, Predictor Variables
Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
Some 70 percent of Hispanic women surveyed in South Carolina say they are victims of domestic violence, according to studies by researchers at the University of South Carolina. It's a serious problem in South Carolina's growing Hispanic community. Recent census estimates reported more than 110,000 Hispanics in the state, but those who study the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Socioeconomic Influences, Family Violence, Hispanic Americans