Gram, L;
Granados, R;
Krockow, EM;
Daruwalla, N;
Osrin, D;
(2021)
Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
, 8
(1)
, Article 53. 10.1057/s41599-021-00730-z.
(In press).
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Abstract
Interventions promoting collective action have been used to prevent domestic violence in a range of settings, but their mechanisms of operation remain unclear. We formalise and combine feminist theoretical approaches to domestic violence into a game-theoretic model of women’s collective action to change gendered social norms and outcomes. We show that social norms create a social dilemma in which it is individually rational for women to abstain from action to prevent domestic violence among neighbours, but all women suffer negative consequences if none take action. Promoting altruism among women can overcome the social dilemma. Discouraging women from tolerating domestic violence, imposing additional external punishment on men for perpetrating violence, or lowering costs to women of taking action against violence may not work or even backfire. We invite researchers on community mobilisation to use our framework to frame their understandings of collective action to prevent domestic violence.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41599-021-00730-z |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00730-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021, The Author(s). Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124162 |
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