Wife Beating

Associated Documents (6)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Campbell, Jacquelyn C.Beating of wives: a cross-cultural perspective
Erchak, Gerald M.Societal isolation, violent norms, and gender relations: a reexamination and extension of levins...
Whiting, John W.M.Aloofness and intimacy of husbands and wives: a cross-cultural study
Krauss, Herbert H.Social contexts of suicide
Stone, Emily A.A Test of an Evolutionary Hypothesis of Violence against Women: The Case of Sex Ratio
Stone, Emily A.A Test of an Evolutionary Hypothesis of Violence Against Women: The Case of Sex Ratio

Associated Hypotheses (10)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Campbell, Jacquelyn C.Wife beating will be predicted by a variety of socio-economic variables.
Erchak, Gerald M.Societal complexity will not be related to wife beating (115).
Erchak, Gerald M.There will be a relationship between cultural support for violence and wife beating (115).
Erchak, Gerald M.There will be a relationship between women's status and power and wife beating (115).
Whiting, John W.M."[There is] no association between wife beating [,] . . . another index of the relation between husband and wife [,] . . . and rooming arrangements. It is associated rather with independent versus extended households. Wife beating tends not to occur in . . . [extended] households" (190)
Krauss, Herbert H.Men's divorce freedom and defiant homicide predicted suicides attributable to interpersonal frustration while only men's divorce freedom predicted suicides with apparent extrapersonal precipitants (227-228, 222).
Stone, Emily A.Violence against women will be positively associated with frequency of overall warfare. (1)
Stone, Emily A.Violence against women will be positively associated with high male-to-female sex ratio. (1)
Stone, Emily A.The frequency of rape and wife beating are correlated with warfare (2).
Stone, Emily A.Sex ratio is positively correlated with the presence of wife beating (2).

Associated OCMs

  1. ingroup antagonisms
  2. family relationships
  3. offenses against the person