What is it about?
This article explores the possibilities of examining intimate partner violence from a critical realist perspective. The article examines the relationship between enabling and counteracting factors based on previous research and highlights the problems of statistically determining when risk is highest, as we do not have access to all factors and as several factors may remain hidden from our empirical methods
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Why is it important?
The article demonstrates the potential of a multi-methodological approach and criticizes those approaches that do not critically question validity.
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This article questions the precision in empirical "evidence" and theory, we have to consider the possibillities to develope new causal models that consider the complexity behind violence
Ph.D., Associate Professor Peter Martin Jansson
Hogskolan Dalarna
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This page is a summary of: Is Methodological Pluralism Improving Our Ability to Uncover the Causal Mechanisms Behind Men’s Violence Against Women?, Partner Abuse, December 2022, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/pa-2022-0043.
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