Drinking, Alcohol Problems and the Five-Year Recurrence and Incidence of Male to Female and Female to Male Partner Violence

Caetano, Raúl; McGrath, Christine J.; Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Field, Craig A.

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“…A certain number of victims had a history of chronic alcohol and/or illegal drug abuse (6.5%) and had consumed before the homicide: 16.7% and 6.5%, respectively, presented positive blood alcohol and illegal drugs concentration, which is far below the rates referred in other studies 9,18,27 but also compared to the prevalence of lifetime alcohol abuse considering the …”

Section: Victims and Perpetratorsmentioning

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Fatal intimate partner violence against women in Portugal: A forensic medical national study

Pereira

Vieira

Magalhães

2013

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important cause of women's health and socio-familial severe problems, the most extreme being the victims' homicide. This is the first nationwide Portuguese autopsy-based and judicial-proven study about female intimate partner homicide.At least 62 women over 15 years old were killed by current or former men-intimate partners, corresponding to an IPV-related female mortality rate of 0.44/100.000 women; intimate partner violence was the reason of homicide in 60.8% of all autopsied women.The typical Portuguese victim showed to be a young adult woman, employed, killed by a current husband in a long-term relationship, usually with children in common and with a history of previous IPV. The typical Portuguese perpetrator showed to be a man older than the victim, employed, owning a firearm and without criminal records. At the time of the fatal event 59.7% of the relationships were current. In 57.9% of the former relationships women were killed during the 1st year after its terminus. Near half of the perpetrators attempted or committed suicide afterwards. Most women were killed by gunshot wounds (45.2%), especially in the thorax (48.4%), with multiple fatal injuries; 56.5% also presented non-fatal injuries.The detection of prior IPV and the risk evaluation seems to be fundamental to decrease these fatal outcomes, but also, the prevention of perpetrators' alcohol abuse and carrying weapons. This work emphasizes the need to deepen the research on this issue, aiming to contribute to prevent both fatal and non-fatal IPV-related cases.

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Section: Victims and Perpetratorsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Fatal intimate partner violence against women in Portugal: A forensic medical national study

Pereira

Vieira

Magalhães

2013

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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“…This study extends previous research in several ways. Previous research in college populations has focused primarily on the relationship between IPV and alcohol consumption, despite the fact that alcohol-related problems have been associated with IPV perpetration in other populations (Caetano et al, 2005;White and Chen, 2002;White and Widom, 2003). In addition, previous research has primarily focused on alcohol expectancies as a potential moderator of the relationship between IPV and drinking.…”

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“…Based on studies of the general population (e.g., Caetano et al, 2005), as well as research with clinical populations (e.g., Fals-Stewart et al, 2005), alcohol consumption has been associated with the perpetration of IPV. Similarly, much of the existing literature on alcohol consumption and IPV perpetration in college populations points to a positive relationship between the two behaviors (Nicholson et al, 1998;Shook et al, 2000;Williams and Smith, 1994), where the use of alcohol before or during a relationship conflict is associated with greater IPV.…”

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Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Problem Drinking Among College Students: The Roles of Expectancies and Subjective Evaluations of Alcohol Aggression

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Neighbors

Kaysen

et al. 2007

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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Objective-The present research examined the effect of alcohol aggression expectancies and subjective evaluations of alcohol's effects on aggression in intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among college students. We were interested in determining the extent to which these relationships differed across gender.Method-A total of 780 (57.3% female) incoming heavy drinking college freshmen who were between the ages of 18 and 25 years completed self-reported measures of IPV perpetration, alcohol use and problems, and alcohol aggression expectancies and subjective evaluations of those expectancies as part of the baseline assessment for a larger social norms alcohol intervention study. Analyses evaluated the effect of alcohol aggression expectancies and subjective evaluations of those expectancies on IPV perpetration.Results-Results indicated that problem drinking was positively associated with IPV perpetration for those who were lower (β =.32, p <.001) versus those who were higher (β =.07, p = NS) in alcohol aggression expectancies. Among men, there was a significantly stronger relationship between problem drinking and IPV perpetration among those who evaluated alcohol's effects on aggression more favorably (β =.41, p <.001) versus less favorably (β =.11, p = NS). Among women, there was not a significantly stronger relationship between problem drinking and IPV perpetration at less favorable (β =.17, p <.05) versus more favorable (β =.11, p <.06) evaluations of alcohol's effects on aggression.Conclusions-Findings suggest that, in understanding IPV perpetration, it may not be sufficient to evaluate expected alcohol effects without also including whether those effects are viewed as good or bad. Findings also suggest that the relationship between alcohol problems and IPV perpetration may be stronger and more straightforward for men than for women.Perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) is a growing concern on college campuses across the nation. Approximately one third of students have experienced violence in their dating relationships in the past year, with male and female students reporting relatively equal rates of perpetration (Straus, 2006;White and Koss, 1991). Thus, research has begun to examine the personality, situational, and contextual factors involved in perpetration of IPV in the dating relationships of college students (Luthra and Gidycz, 2006; O'Leary, 1989, 1996). Alcohol use specifically has been associated with perpetration of IPV in college populations.

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“…3 By estimating the association between the amount of alcohol consumed and IPV episodes, a recent study revealed that all perpetrations of male violence against women and of women against men increase significantly with a frequency of consumption of five or more drinks per episode. 6 In general, during IPV episodes, men had consumed alcohol between 6% and 57% of episodes and women between 10% and 27% of episodes, according to results from another study. 21 Despite strong scientific evidence that alcohol consumption is associated with higher risk of IPV, there were no national population studies in Brazil that have investigated this association until now.…”

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Violência entre parceiros íntimos e consumo de álcool

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OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of intimate partner violence and alcohol consumption during episodes of violence. METHODS:Cross-sectional study with a multi-stage probability sample, representative of the Brazilian population. Sample was comprised of 1,445 men and women, married or cohabitating, interviewed between November 2005 and April 2006. Interviews were conducted in the interviewees' homes, using a standardized closed questionnaire. Rates of prevalence of intimate partner violence were estimated and chi-square tests were used to assess gender differences in this prevalence. RESULTS:General prevalence of intimate partner violence was 10.7% in men and 14.6% in women. Men consumed alcohol in 38.1% of cases and women in 9.2%. As regards perception of alcohol consumption by intimate partner, men reported their female partners consumed alcohol in 30.8% of episodes of violence, while women reported that their male partners consumed it in 44.6% of episodes. CONCLUSIONS:Women were more frequently involved in mild and serious episodes of violence (perpetration, victimization or both) than men. The fact that episodes of violence reported were four times more frequent in intoxicated men enables the assumption that prevention of intimate partner violence may be promoted by public policies aimed at reducing alcohol consumption. 23 16% of American couples had experienced one or more types of IPV in the 12 months preceding the interviews. The majority of aggressions were considered mild violence (slapping and shoving, for example). However, about one third of episodes reported were serious (beating, choking, hitting with an object, forced sex, threat with or use of a knife or firearm). The same study concluded that the index of male partner violence against females was similar to that of female partners against males, as observed in 1975 and confirmed by other studies. DESCRIPTORS:1,23 Even though women perpetrate as much violence as their male partners in terms of frequency, they are more likely to suffer serious injuries.25 A study performed in the United States revealed that about 20% of traumarelated visits to an emergency department and 25% of homicides in women involved IPV. 19 In the United States, IPV estimates based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey, conducted in 1995, showed that the 12-month IPV index among couples varies between 17% and 39%, with indices of male violence against women and female violence against men corresponding to 13,6% and 18,2%, respectively. 22Previous research has also established a consistent positive association between male and female problems related to alcohol or alcohol dependence and IPV.14,18 Some studies have showed time associations between alcohol and IPV so that conditional probabilities of perpetration of male violence against women were nine times higher when men drank, compared to days without alcohol consumption. Probabilities were also 19 times higher on days of high alcohol consumption than those on days without consumption.5 Studies with the ...

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Drinking, Alcohol Problems and the Five-Year Recurrence and Incidence of Male to Female and Female to Male Partner Violence

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Fatal intimate partner violence against women in Portugal: A forensic medical national study

Fatal intimate partner violence against women in Portugal: A forensic medical national study

Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Problem Drinking Among College Students: The Roles of Expectancies and Subjective Evaluations of Alcohol Aggression

Violência entre parceiros íntimos e consumo de álcool

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