SOCY 389 Chapter Notes - Chapter n.a: Externalizing Disorders, Left School, Impul

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 389
• Professor: Fiona Kay

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Indian or african american descent than white women however for other crimes the differences are much smaller: many explanations account for the changes in norms and attitudes between cultures (cid:224) cultural explanation, normative differences are thought to make unique causal contributions to the risk of violence, focus on social conditions such as economic disadvantage and inequality, social isolation (cid:224) structural explanations, analysis has found age and marital status are better than income as a predicator, however income is a stronger indicator than race, researchers are concerned that existent findings mask causal differences for women in different racial groups, this chapter uses data from ncvs to describe similarities and differences in the levels, trends, and correlates of nonlethal violence against women of different racial groups in the us, purpose: to asses whether the sources of risk are similar for women of different racial groups.