Testing Johnson’s Typology: Is There Gender Symmetry in Intimate Terrorism?

Jasinski, Jana L.; Blumenstein, Lindsey; Morgan, Rachel

doi:10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-12-00146

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“…Another study has found that men are equally as likely to be victims of IT as women (Jasinski, Blumenstein, & Morgan, 2014). In light of this evidence, further studies should address the CC experiences of men as they differ or are similar to those of women.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Coercive Control, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression Among Homeless Women

Levine¹,

Fritz

2016

Partner Abuse

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Intimate relationships involving psychological abuse, particularly those characterized by coercive control (CC), a pattern of behaviors aimed at gaining control over one's romantic partner, have been associated with poorer mental health for victims than among victims of physical partner abuse alone (Johnson & Leone, 2005). This study investigated whether CC predicted posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression above and beyond the effects of childhood maltreatment and frequency and severity of physical partner abuse among a sample of homeless women. This is the first known study to date to investigate the role of CC in the partner abuse experiences of homeless women. Fifty-one ethnically diverse women with a history of partner abuse victimization residing in a homeless shelter in Southwest Ontario, Canada, completed questionnaires assessing partner abuse, CC, depression, and PTSD. As predicted, CC was found to predict PTSD but not depression, after controlling for childhood maltreatment and frequency and severity of physical partner abuse. In addition, women exhibited very high rates of both PTSD and depression. The relation between CC and mental health of victims, particularly the development of PTSD, should be considered in partner abuse prevention programs and interventions. Furthermore, the high rates of psychopathology reported by the women indicate a great need for psychological aid among women residing in homeless shelters.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Coercive Control, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression Among Homeless Women

Levine¹,

Fritz

2016

Partner Abuse

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“…Large-scale national surveys conducted in the United States and have measured the extent of CCV in the general population (Felson & Outlaw, 2007;Jasinski, Blumenstein, & Morgan, 2014;Laroche, 2005). The latest of these surveys identified 36% of female IPV victims to have experienced CCV compared to 35% of male victims.…”

Section: Differential Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States

Armenti²,

et al. 2016

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In the United States, the judicial system response to violence between intimate partners, or intimate partner violence (IPV), typically mandates that adjudicated perpetrators complete a batterer intervention program (BIP). The social science data has found that these programs, on the whole, are only minimally effective in reducing rates of IPV. The authors examined the social science literature on the characteristics and efficacy of BIPs. More than 400 studies were considered, including a sweeping, recently conducted survey of BIP directors across the United States and Canada. Results of this review indicate that the limitations of BIPs are due, in large part, to the limitations of current state standards regulating these programs and, furthermore, that these standards are not grounded in the body of empirical research evidence or best practices. The authors, all of whom have considerable expertise in the area of domestic violence perpetrator treatment, conducted an exhaustive investigation of the following key intervention areas: overall effectiveness of BIPs; length of treatment/length of group sessions; number of group participants and number of facilitators; group format and curriculum; assessment protocol and instruments; victim contact; modality of treatment; differential treatment; working with female perpetrators; working with perpetrators in racial and ethnic minority groups; working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) perpetrators; perpetrator treatment and practitioner–client relationships; and required practitioner education and training. Recommendations for evidence-based national BIP standards were made based on findings from this review.

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“…Consequently, the data collected by these two countries are not comparable (Novak, 2006), and interpretations of gender symmetries based on their data should be understood in context (e.g. Straus & Ramirez, 2007;Jasinski et al, 2014).…”

Section: Data Collected By Clinical and Crime Prevention Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Redfern

2015

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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This research reviews and discusses the clinical and social science datasets used to identify victims of domestic violence (DV) in the archaeological record. Clinical sources are skewed by law enforcement and cost issues, dominated by Western female data and suggest that DV is a well-documented form of abuse. Social science sources and perspectives, having arisen from activist movements, are more spatiotemporally diverse in breadth and perspective, and challenge the notion that DV is universal and well-documented, but are biased because they rely upon self-survey reports. Palaeopathology and bioarchaeology have adopted a clinical approach to DV, relying on a pattern of injuries (focussed on the head, face and neck), without critically evaluating whether such datasets are appropriate to the spatiotemporal and socio-cultural diversity present in the archaeological record. A case study evaluating the injury patterns in 964 post-medieval adult females from London (England) demonstrates that the majority of injuries that conform to the clinical model have robust alternative explanations, and only a small minority of females have injuries that may have been produced by interpersonal violence, not necessarily DV.In conclusion, the review highlights that the perspectives of the elderly and male victims are currently neglected in research, and evidence for injury, especially that which may reflect abuse, necessitates interpretation within a 'web of violence' approach, as DV does not occur in isolation from other violence in a community. It challenges the 'check-list' approach to interpretation and suggests that a closer examination of fracture mechanism combined with injury patterning may be a more informative approach with which to identify DV victims of both sexes and identifies the need to integrate other health data into the interpretation of violence and abuse. Overall, it concurs with the minority of clinical and forensic literature that it might not be possible to differentiate DV and assault victims.

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Testing Johnson’s Typology: Is There Gender Symmetry in Intimate Terrorism?

Cited by 40 publications

References 32 publications

Coercive Control, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression Among Homeless Women

Coercive Control, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression Among Homeless Women

Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

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