Adolescents as perpetrators of aggression within the family

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Adolescent violence towards parents—Prevalence and characteristics using Australian Police Data

“…Within all obtained data sets, there was a clear pattern of males being more likely to perpetrate AVTP than females, with approximately 60% of offenders being male. This finding is consistent with some of the research internationally in the area of AVTP (Calvete et al., 2015; Ibabe et al, 2014; Kuay et al., 2016; Miles & Condry, 2014; Nock & Kazdin, 2002). Both NSW and Victoria showed that females were more likely to be perpetrators of AVTP at a younger age than their male counterparts, with it seeming a problematic behavior that they “age out of,” a phenomenon that is not mirrored by male AVTP offenders.…”

Characteristics of adolescent violence towards parents – a Rapid Evidence Assessment

“…Of the 20 identified studies, most were conducted in the USA (n ¼ 7) or in Spain (n ¼ 9), with two studies conducted in Canada and one in the UK. Sample sizes ranged from 50 (Kuay et al, 2016) to 2,213 (Brezina, 1999) and most (75 percent) of the studies had been published in the last six years. A number of studies explored a large number of variables as potential characteristics associated with AVTP; therefore, this review only considers the major characteristics identified (Table III).…”

“…In total, 14 of the studies described the gender of perpetrators of AVTP. Four studies (Calvete, Orue and Gámez-Guadix, 2015;Calvete, Orue, Gamez-Guadix and Bushman, 2015;Ibabe et al, 2014;Kuay et al, 2016;Nock and Kazdin, 2002) identified gender as a key characteristic, finding that males were more likely to perpetrate AVTP. Ten other studies, however, concluded that AVTP was a non-gendered phenomenon.…”

Adolescent-to-Parent Violence: Psychological and Family Adjustment

“…As for the characteristics of adolescents involved in APV, no significant gender differences were observed. In general, there is no consensus in the literature regarding differences between boys and girls in exercising APV (Moulds and Day, 2017), with some studies reporting males perpetrate more violence than females (Ibabe et al, 2014;Calvete et al, 2015;Kuay et al, 2016), whereas others studies found no genders differences (Calvete et al, 2014;Margolin and Baucom, 2014;Bartle-Haring et al, 2015). The lack of consensus is associated to the type of samples employed, judicial or normalized.…”