Older men’s experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse

Bates, Elizabeth ORCID logo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8694-8078 and Carthy, Nikki (2025) Older men’s experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse. In: Dixon, Louise, Hines, Denise and Douglas, Emily, (eds.) The Routledge handbook of men’s victimisation in intimate relationships. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, UK, pp. 230-242. Full text not available from this repository.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003144939-20

Abstract

Research over the last 50 years has demonstrated the significance of intimate partner violence (IPV) as a social issue, but it is only within the last 15 years that there has been a more dedicated and in-depth exploration of men's experiences. As a consequence, we now have a much greater understanding of men's experience of physical violence, sexual violence, coercive control, and emotional abuse, as well as the serious and adverse impacts this abuse can have on their physical and mental health. However, this research has typically worked with “younger” samples and so there is still a lack of understanding of the ways in which this type of abuse is experienced by older men. The aim of this chapter is to explore the current knowledge on older men's experience of IPV, which includes an overview of what we know from “younger” men's experiences and the research literature on older women's experiences and the barriers of older groups in help seeking before discussing the relatively small amount of literature that has examined older men's experiences.

Item Type: Book Section
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis
ISBN: 9781003144939 / 9780367701802
Departments: Institute of Health > Psychology and Psychological Therapies
Additional Information: Chapter 17 within book.
Depositing User: Anna Lupton
Date Deposited: 13 May 2025 08:24
Last Modified: 13 May 2025 08:24
URI: https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8821
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