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For female prepetrators of IPV who claim self-defense, 87% change their story when told that relatives/witnesses related different accounts

Topic: Violence, Intimate Partner

Source

Citation: Deconstructing Self-Defense in Wife-to-Husband Violence, p. 290

Author(s): Sarantakos

Institution(s): Charles Sturt University

Link: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/929640/14202827/1316316079817/Sarantakos.pdf?token=yfd0vx50qg%2BS89Td2CcK5%2FC0sBU%3D

Nation(s): Australia

Year(s): 2004

Source: Primary

Type: Interviews

Discussion

Objections/Rebuttals:

p.293 – “Certainly, the qualitative nature of the study and the small sample size [68 families] allow no claims of representativeness or generalizability of the findings. “

Counter-Objections/-Rebuttals:

Read the rest of that paragraph. p. 293 – “Nevertheless, the study offers sufficient substance and evidence to allow analytic or naturalistic generalizations (Blakie, 2000). Such generalizations are based on the conceptual power of the findings derived from the fittingness and comparability of the cases studied (Firestone, 1993; Schofield, 1993).”