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Wright uses data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to examine the effects of neighborhood structural characteristics and intervening social mechanisms of collective efficacy, social ties, culture, and disorder on intimate partner violence victimization among females. She finds that partner violence is not solely an individual-level phenomenon and that the mechanisms identified by social disorganization theory appear to explain neighborhood influences on intimate partner violence. In particular, neighborhood concentrated immigration, collective efficacy, social ties

Intimate partner violence. --- Neighborhoods --- Violence --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- IPV (Intimate partner violence) --- Partner violence, Intimate --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Forecasting. --- Prediction --- Domestic violence