Journal Article

SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND CRIMINALITY AS PREDICTORS OF MALE VIOLENCE: Does Victim's Gender or Place of Occurrence Matter?

Kivivuori, Janne, Martikainen, Pekka, Salmi, Venla, Aaltonen, Mikko

2012

Overview

While low socio-economic status (SES) is generally accepted as a risk factor for violence, some have argued that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a 'classless' crime. We examine the effects of SES and prior criminal record on different types of police-reported violence committed in 2005-07 by Finnish men using a register-based general population sample that offers exceptionally good population coverage. While IPV against women appears somewhat less determined by offender's low SES than other types of violent crime, we demonstrate considerable SES effects for all examined types of violence. Offenders in male-to-male violence in private settings appear the most marginalized.We conclude that social disadvantage contributes to male violence against both men and women.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Oxford Uniiversity Press,Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subject: Criminality / Criminals / Disadvantaged / Domestic violence / Economic factors / Economic status / Female offenders / Gender / HOMICIDE / Intimate partner violence / Males / Marginality / Offenders / POLICE / Police reports / Public space / Risk factors / Social status / Socioeconomic factors / Socioeconomic status / Socioeconomics / Unemployment / Victims / VIOLENCE / Violence against women / Violent crime / Violent crimes / WOMEN AND THE LAW