Social and environmental contexts of adolescent and young at

(Coker et al., 2002). More recently, male-perpe-trated partner violence among youth has been recog-nized as a significant public health concern. A study of public high school students reported that 1 in 5 adolescent girls have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from a dating partner, with the vast majority indicating only male dating partners (Silverman, Raj, Mucci, & Hathaway, 2001). Although a large number of studies have focused on the experiences of IPV victimization among women and girls (e.g., Ackard & Neumark-Sztainer