Bystander Interventions on Behalf of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Victims.

ABSTRACT: Using newly available U.S. nationally representative data from the No More study (N = 1,307), this article investigates (a) knowledge of sexual assault and intimate partner violence (IPV) victims within one's social network; (b) who intervenes, whom they intervene on behalf of, and how they intervene; and (c) the perceived barriers to intervening in IPV specifically. The findings reveal that knowledge of violence, the likelihood of intervening, and the intervention approaches taken all vary demographically and by violence type. Among respondents who have known a victim, one- third report having intervened for sexual assault, while one-half report having intervened for IPV. For both types of violence, respondents are more likely to have intervened on behalf of family or friends than

SUBMITTER: Weitzman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6342674 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature