Carolyn J. Field's scientific contributions

Publications (3)

Article
This study explores the likelihood of physical violence perpetration against an intimate partner in same-race relationships in comparison with those in interracial relationships. The sample consists of 1,174 students at four American universities and one Canadian university. Results indicate little difference between racial groups in the percent wh...
Article
This study uses a sample of college students (N = 1173) at four American and one Canadian university to examine attitudes toward interracial relationships. The sample allowed for comparison of the attitudes toward interracial relationships at historically Black universities (HBUs) with those at predominantly White universities (PWUs). Results revea...

Citations

... Few courts readily take the woman's history of victimization into account "either in establishing culpability or in sentencing" (Doyle, Khanna, & Grimstone, 2016). Many end up serving lengthy prison sentences (Field, Cherukuri, Kimuna, & Berg, 2017). Sichel, Javdani, Gordon, and Huynh (2020, this issue) in their examination of women's violence, argue that it is important to understand the "context of gendered inequality" in order to understand women's use of violence in response to patriarchal oppression. ...
... Much of the research on dating violence among college students has focused on comparisons of victimization between male and female students and between students of different races. [12][13][14][15] Few researchers have set their sights on understanding the intragroup vulnerabilities and related risk among emerging adult women, particularly young women living at the intersections of multiple marginalized social locations. ...
... NOTE: These classes are often reinforced by an internal logic that maintains the human classification through the traditions of the professed cultural-class. For example, traditionally socio-cultural classes who define themselves and/ or were classed as by others the same race or ethnicity have tended to have relationships within their own groups to support the determination of their classification (see for example McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook 2001;Field, Kimuna, and Straus 2013). ...