TY - JOUR
T1 - Violence Against Women in Hong Kong
T2 - Results of the International Violence Against Women Survey
AU - Bouhours, Brigitte
AU - Broadhurst, Roderic
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - In Hong Kong, nearly 1,300 women participated by telephone in the International Violence Against Women Survey in 2006. One in five respondents had experienced violence since age 16. Sexual violence (13.4%) was more frequent than physical violence (11.7%). Women were more likely to be abused by men they knew (13.5%) than by strangers (8%). Compared with other surveyed countries, Hong Kong recorded among the lowest rates of violence by both intimate partners and non-partners. These results suggest that cultural influences linked to the interaction of modernization and some protective factors found in the adherence to traditional Chinese values are relevant.
AB - In Hong Kong, nearly 1,300 women participated by telephone in the International Violence Against Women Survey in 2006. One in five respondents had experienced violence since age 16. Sexual violence (13.4%) was more frequent than physical violence (11.7%). Women were more likely to be abused by men they knew (13.5%) than by strangers (8%). Compared with other surveyed countries, Hong Kong recorded among the lowest rates of violence by both intimate partners and non-partners. These results suggest that cultural influences linked to the interaction of modernization and some protective factors found in the adherence to traditional Chinese values are relevant.
KW - Hong Kong and China
KW - crime victims survey
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - violence against women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942910041&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1077801215593646
DO - 10.1177/1077801215593646
M3 - Article
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 21
SP - 1311
EP - 1329
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 11
ER -