Economic Stress and Intimate Violence: Article Critique

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Domestic violence often occurs outside of marital bonds, and so will go underreported in analysis which employs the NSFH data set.

In researching the NSFH, some shortcomings are revealed. The NSFH asks short series of questions based on outcome, which do not draw the respondent in to answer the questions in a thoughtful, and ultimately, honest fashion. NSFH questions appear in the middle of a lengthy interview, and respondents may be tired, or simply lose attention at that point. Additionally, the importance of domestic violence issues may be lower in the mind of the respondents than in those of the interviewers, so reports of domestic violence may be underrepresented. Moreover, the NSFH did not consider the extent that nonviolent argumentative tactics are used as means of intimidation.

In a study that is trying to determine whether economic variables are salient risk factors in increasing domestic violence on women, a fatal data set failing that underreports domestic violence at all, is hardly going to produce meaningful outcomes with real life data that can influence funding, policy, and societal norms.

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To better assess whether economic factors influence domestic violence behavior against women, data should be gathered from sources which are more organic to the problem, which include information from Rape Crisis Centers, battered women's centers, socially conscious groups, and other groups with a feminist agenda.

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This is not to confuse "feminist" with "confrontationist." Rather, it is to elucidate the often buried reality of the incidence of domestic violence due to a bias toward nonfeminist rubrics of dominance in relationships.

A thoughtfully constructed survey questionnaire, with interview type questions, could be disseminated to the pro-feminist, women-centered institutions, such as those listed above (rape crisis centers, etc.). Interview type questions, should be in the beginning, and be in depth to allow for a period of desensitization by the respondent -- in other words, a period in which to feel comfortable and alleviate potential fear about the survey interview. Simple survey style questions with scales or 0, 1 variable answers could follow, with a conclusion of the offering of help by the administering agency. In this way, not only is a real-life data set, organic in nature, able to be obtained, a secondary purpose would be to both alleviate and empower the woman to seek help, which is ultimately the goal of policies that are written and funded to help overcome the issue of domestic violence. Economic indicators can be written into this type of study design, without the limiting factors of being confined to married couple-only interviews….....

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