Countering Violence Against Women by Encouraging Disclosure: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda
Countering Violence Against Women by Encouraging Disclosure: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda
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DOI：
10.1177/0010414020912275
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发表时间：
2020-04-08
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Cooper, Jasper
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作者：
Green, Donald P.;Wilke, Anna M.;Cooper, Jasper
对妇女的暴力行为在东非很普遍，近一半的已婚妇女遭受身体虐待。寻求解决这一问题的人面临两个挑战：一些形式的家庭暴力得到广泛宽恕，证人不报告事件是常态。在越来越多的文献表明，教育娱乐可以改变规范和行为的基础上，我们展示了来自112个农村村庄的10,000多名乌干达人参加的媒体活动的实验证据。在随机分配的村庄，电视剧阻止了VAW，鼓励了报道。干预后几个月进行的访谈结果显示，纵容暴力侵害妇女的态度没有改变，但向当局报告的意愿大幅增加，特别是在妇女中，经历暴力的妇女比例下降。其理论含义是，影响披露规范的干预措施可能会减少社会有害行为，即使它们不会降低其可接受性。
Violence against women (VAW) is widespread in East Africa, with almost half of married women experiencing physical abuse. Those seeking to address this issue confront two challenges: some forms of domestic violence are widely condoned and it is the norm for witnesses to not report incidents. Building on a growing literature showing that education-entertainment can change norms and behaviors, we present experimental evidence from a media campaign attended by more than 10,000 Ugandans in 112 rural villages. In randomly assigned villages, video dramatizations discouraged VAW and encouraged reporting. Results from interviews conducted several months after the intervention show no change in attitudes condoning VAW yet a substantial increase in willingness to report to authorities, especially among women, and a decline in the share of women who experienced violence. The theoretical implication is that interventions that affect disclosure norms may reduce socially harmful behavior even if they do not reduce its acceptability.