Gender-based violence and socioeconomic inequalities: Does living in more deprived neighbourhoods increase women’s risk of intimate partner violence?

Ligia Kiss, Lilia Blima Schraiber, Lori Heise, Cathy Zimmerman, Nelson Gouveia and Charlotte Watts

Social Science & Medicine, 2012, vol. 74, issue 8, 1172-1179

Abstract: This study investigates the influence of neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions on women’s likelihood of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Keywords: Intimate partner violence; Women; Socioeconomic factors; Poverty; Multilevel analysis; Developing countries; Brazil; Gender; Neighbourhoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.033

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