Men Who Use Violence: Intimate Violence Versus Non-Intimate Violence Profiles

Abstract

The current study examined the differences between three types of violent men based on Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart's (1994) tripartite typology and a group of non-intimate violent men. First, a cluster analysis was conducted on a sample of 91 domestically violent men, resulting in three clusters that approximated the tripartite model for psychopathology as measured by the MMPI-2, that is, non-pathological, borderline/dysphoric, and antisocial. Based on the violence variables (i.e., severity of violence, family-only violence, and exposure to family of origin violence) only severity of violence approximated what would be expected across the three clusters, that is, the less the psychopathology, the less severe the violence. The other two violence variables had approximate frequencies/percentages of occurrence that would be expected for individual typologies with some but not all three typologies. In comparing the three intimate violent typologies to the non-intimate violent group, the non-intimate and non-pathological groups were within normal limits and did not differ significantly on any of the MMPI-2 scales. These non-intimate and non-pathological groups differed significantly from the antisocial and borderline/dysphoric groups on all the scales that defined the psychopathology of these two groups. On the violence variables, the non-intimate groups reported significantly less severe violence than the borderline/dysphoric and antisocial groups.

Exploring the Effect of Arrest Across a Domestic Batterer Typology

“…First, continued evidence supporting the existence of male, intimate partner violence batterer subtypes was revealed. This study exposed four subtypes of male IPV batterers, similar in characteristics to the four subtypes revealed by Holtzworth‐Munroe and associates (), and affirmed by others (Hamberger et al., ; Huss & Ralston, ; Langhinrichsen‐Rohling et al., ; Lawson et al., ; Thijssen & de Ruiter, ; Tweed & Dutton, ; Waltz et al., ). The present study demonstrated that these classifications could be accurately obtained, even with crude measures.…”

“…Waltz, Babcock, Jacobson, and Gottman () analyzed a sample of men using intimate partner reports of violence and clinical scales. Lawson and associates () studied a sample of convicted domestic batterers serving sentences on probation. All four of these studies produced three‐cluster solutions with batterer subtypes very similar in characteristics to those identified by Holtzworth‐Munroe and Stuart ().…”

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Criminal Careers of Intimate Partner Violence Offender Subtypes: Results From a Prospective Survey of Males

“…Findings have been generally supportive, with some research finding evidence of these three groups (Langhinrichsen-Rohling et al, 2000;Lawson et al, 2003). For example, using data gleaned from several sources (e.g., wife reports, number of assaults by the man outside the family, and personality scales from the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory), Waltz, Babcock, Jacobson, and Gottman (2000) found three subgroups.…”

“…Research on the extent to which those who commit IPV are generally violent men with an underlying hostility, those with personality pathology, or 'family only' perpetrators has been a question widely investigated in clinical and community samples (Holtzworth-Munroe et al, 2000;Lawson et al, 2003;Tweed & Dutton, 1998;Weinstein et al, 2012). Findings have been generally supportive, with some research finding evidence of these three groups (Langhinrichsen-Rohling et al, 2000;Lawson et al, 2003).…”

A literature review of intimate partner violence and its classifications

“…Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart (1994) (Hamberger et al, 1996;Langhinrichsen-Rohling et al, 2000a;Lawson et al, 2003;Tweed & Dutton, 1998;Waltz, Babcock, Jacobson, & Gottman, 2000;Wray, Hoyt, Gerstle, & Leitman, 2015). Extending the typology, the authors (HoltzworthMunroe, Meehan, Herron, Rehman, & Stuart, 2000) added another subtype known as low level anti-social perpetrators which has also been supported through research (Huss & Ralston, 2008;Loinaz, 2014;Thijssen & de Ruiter, 2011).…”