The relationship between gambling and intimate partner violence against women

Hing, Nerilee

The relationship between gambling and intimate partner violence against women Nerilee Hing, Catherine O’Mullan, Elaine Nuske, Helen Breen, Lydia, Mainey, Annabel Taylor, Andrew Frost, Nancy Greer, Rebecca Jenkinson, Uma Jatkar, Julie Deblaquiere, Angela Rintoul, Anna Thomas, Erika Langham, Alun Jackson, Jamie Lee and Vijay Rawat - Sydney, NSW : Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS), 2020 - electronic document (148 pages) ; PDF file - ANROWS Research report .

ANROWS Research Report, Issue 21, September 2020

This study aimed to investigate the nature of the relationship
between gambling and IPV against women by a male partner.
Four research questions guided the study:
1. How does gambling by a male partner interact with his
violence against his female partner?
2. How does gambling by a female partner interact with
violence from her male partner?
3. How does gambling by a male partner interact with his
economic abuse of his female partner?
4. Do older women have distinctive experiences of violence
from a male partner linked to gambling?
The study focused on IPV by men against a female partner
because this is the most common form of DFV linked
to gambling (Dowling et al., 2014; Dowling et al., 2019).
Gambling-related IPV in this study refers to situations where
the IPV is linked to the perpetrator’s gambling (where the
male perpetrator of IPV has a gambling problem) or where
the IPV is linked to the victim’s/survivor’s gambling (where
the female victim/survivor of IPV has a gambling problem). (From the Executive summary). Record #8934


DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FINANCIAL ABUSE
FAMILY VIOLENCE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PERPETRATORS
PROBLEM GAMBLING
SUPPORT SERVICES
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE


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