Bystander Reaction to Women Fighting: Developing a Theory of Intervention

Autor/inn/en	Lowe, Robert D.; Levine, Mark; Best, Rachel M.; Heim, Derek
Titel	Bystander Reaction to Women Fighting: Developing a Theory of Intervention
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27 (2012) 9, S.1802-1826 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260511430393
Schlagwörter	Females; Intervention; Teacher Attitudes; Theories; Violence; Aggression; Interviews; Emotional Response; Psychological Patterns; Interpersonal Relationship; Gender Issues; Social Attitudes; Moral Values; Stereotypes; College Students; Late Adolescents; Adults; Focus Groups; Masculinity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Lehrerverhalten; Theory; Theorie; Gewalt; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Emotionales Verhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Geschlechterfrage; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Klischee; Collegestudent; Halbstarker; Männlichkeit
Abstract	This article explores accounts of bystanders to female-on-female public violence. Group interviews with participants in the night-time economy are carried out. Whereas men tend to respond to the discussion topic of female-on-female violence with laughter, this laughter reveals ambivalence and discomfort as much as amusement. Men seem to negotiate the tension between the expectation that they should intervene in emergencies and a catalogue of costs that attend intervention. Female bystanders appear to have a different set of concerns. They talk about feelings of shame at the interpersonal and the group level. Women cite the public spectacle, and the opportunity for men to demean or sexualize women, as reasons for intervention. The article concludes with some recommendations about the importance of exploring female violence in its own terms, beginning with a series of identified moral and social dilemmas incurred within possible third-party intervention. (Contains 8 extracts.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10