Different Scripts, Different Casts: A Crime Script Analysis Indicating Intimate Partner Violence Is Not All the Same

Abstract

Crime script analysis was used to analyze intimate partner violence diversity by identifying variables significantly associated with different script tracks. Qualitative thematic analysis using official police administrative data from Queensland, Australia, was used to develop an intimate partner violence protoscript ( n = 40), followed by quantitative hierarchical cluster analysis and cross-tabulations to examine diversity within scripts. Four diverse script tracks were identified: “escalating jealousy,” “persistently possessive,” “controlling victim agency,” and “enduring argument.” Intimate partner diversity exists with divisions based on statistically significant variables. Implications for situational crime prevention and the use of mixed methods for strengthening crime script analysis are discussed.

The age of extremism: a crime script analysis of violent and nonviolent extremists according to age of first extremist act

“…Recent research (Carney et al , 2023; Dehghanniri and Borrion, 2021) has demonstrated that while qualitative approaches allow for the intricacies of an incident to be examined, quantitative methods benefit from a more transparent reporting of findings. As such, while our analysis was qualitative, we supported our findings (presented in Tables 1–5: Source: Created by authors) with frequency scores to better support the reproducibility of findings in different samples.…”

“…More recently, a pathways approach has been applied to explore how life events and other factors that may influence an individual’s trajectory towards becoming a criminal or a terrorist (Carney et al , 2023; Jensen et al , 2020a; Knight and Keatley, 2020; Keatley et al , 2021). Pathways refer to the sequential temporal route that is shaped, guided and directed by the influences that the individual encounters.…”