Analyzing Differences in Forms of Domestic Violence

维多利亚博士S.南方卫理公会大学的洛克伍德将对家庭暴力的社会和文化相关性进行研究。家庭暴力研究的最新进展表明，它实际上可能包括几种性质不同的行为形式，可以通过其潜在动机，冲突/控制策略，对受害者的后果和家庭环境来区分。 已经确定了两种主要形式：情境性夫妻暴力和亲密恐怖主义。 研究人员将运用这一模型来了解法国海外领土法属波利尼西亚南方群岛的塔希提岛农村地区的Tubuai和Rurutu岛上家庭暴力的变化。 跨文化文献表明，早婚中配偶双方实施的家庭暴力发生率很高，这可能是较为短暂的、往往不太严重的夫妻暴力形式。 拟议的研究将调查每种形式的家庭暴力在普遍程度、原因、意义和对受害者的后果方面的差异。 研究将侧重于早婚中的冲突和不稳定与夫妻间暴力行为高发率之间可能存在的联系，这是一种跨文化的模式。 情境性夫妻暴力与亲密恐怖主义相关的终生虐待模式不同，似乎被家庭政治中的犯罪者战略性地利用。 该项目还将调查各种家庭暴力行为“含义”的差异，有些被定义为“暴力”和非法行为，有些被定义为“非暴力”和正当行为。 将确定大溪地性别系统内婚姻、家庭和住户层面的关键因素，这些因素与夫妻中每种形式的家庭暴力的存在/不存在有关。 描述婚姻历史和家庭暴力事件的叙述分析将被分析，以揭示家庭暴力如何开始和发展随着时间的推移在夫妇。 这项研究将有助于我们努力了解暴力如何以及为什么成为某些婚姻关系的特征，而不是其他人。 它还将有助于我们努力发展跨文化的家庭暴力原因理论。

Dr. Victoria S. Lockwood of Southern Methodist University will undertake research on the social and cultural correlates of domestic violence. Recent advances in the study of domestic violence suggest that it may actually consist of several qualitatively different forms of behavior that can be distinguished by their underlying motivations, conflict/control tactics, consequences for victims, and domestic contexts. Two major forms have been identified: situational couple violence and intimate terrorism. The researcher will apply this model to understanding variability in domestic violence on the rural Tahitian islands of Tubuai and Rurutu, part of the Austral Islands of France's Overseas Territory of French Polynesia. The cross-cultural literature suggests that a high rate of domestic violence perpetrated by both spouses in early marriage may be the more transient and often less severe form of situational couple violence. The proposed study will investigate differences in the prevalence, causes, meanings, and consequences for victims of each form of domestic violence. Research will focus on possible linkages between how conflict and instability in early marriage to high rates of situational couple violence, a pattern identified cross-culturally. Situational couple violence, unlike the life-long patterns of abuse associated with intimate terrorism, appears to be strategically utilized by perpetrators in domestic politics. The project will also investigate differences in the "meanings" of various domestic violence acts, some defined as "violent" and illegitimate, and others defined as "not-violence" and justifiable. Critical factors operating at the marital, family, and household levels within the Tahitian gender system will be identified that are linked to the presence/absence of each form of domestic violence in couples. Analysis of narratives describing marital histories and domestic violence events will be analyzed to uncover how domestic violence begins and develops over time in couples. This research will contribute to our efforts to understand how and why violence becomes a feature of some marital relationships but not others. It will also contribute to our efforts to develop theories of the causes of domestic violence cross-culturally.