Explaining the Frequency of Intimate Partner Violence By Male Perpetrators

Abstract

The authors measured potential causes of prolonged male violence against female intimate partners in four domains: enduring antisocial traits, perpetrator's attitudes and values, aspects of the relationship, and neighborhood characteristics. They also examined perpetrators' substance abuse and the couples' socioeconomic status as possible causes of prolonged intimate partner violence. The dependent variable was the total number of instances of violence against a female intimate partner recorded for each male perpetrator in comprehensive police and criminal justice archives. As expected, antisocial traits (especially psychopathy) gave the best evidence of causal status. Variables in each other domain exhibited some explanatory power, but some of the apparent causal role could be attributable to enduring antisociality.

Intimate partner violence offenders: Generating a data-based typology of batterers and implications for treatment

“…Similar conclusions may be extended to the antisocial/violent group. This group was labelled in the literature as a "high risk group" (Cavanaugh & Gelles, 2005), as antisocial behaviour is connected with intimate partner violence (Hilton, Harris, Rice, Houghton, & Eke, 2008;Harris, Hilton, & Rice, 2011). Consequently, some authors argue that antisocial batterers may benefit from an integral intervention with a multimodal focus, i.e., a cognitive and behavioural approach, and a multilevel focus, i.e., directed to the batterer and to the other areas related to intimate partner violence in which there are deficits (e.g., family, social network, community, job training) (Arce & Fariña, 2010).…”

Are Generalist Batterers Different from Generally Extra-Family Violent Men? A Study among Imprisoned Male Violent Offenders

“…Overall, research on male batterers have suggested that in most cases of severe IPV against women male aggressors were also generally violent beyond the family realm (Cavanough & Gelles, 2005;Fowler & Westen, 2011;Gondolf, 1988;Hamberger, Lohn, Bonge, & Tonlin, 1996;Harris, Hilton, & Rice, 2011;Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart, 1994). As Herrero, Torres, Fernández-Suárez, & Rodríguez-Díaz (2016) have recently suggested, however, the fact that severe IPV against women is overrepresented in penitentiary-based samples of male batterers might lead to a lack of representativeness of the less violent batterer.…”

The role of psychopathic traits among intimate partner-violent men: A systematic review

“…Twenty-six studies examined the role of psychopathy to predict IPV perpetration among non-convicted partner-violent men (see Table 3; Babcock, Green, & Webb, 2008;Babcock, Green, Webb, & Yerington, 2005;Bates, Archer, & Graham-Kevan, 2017;Coyne, Nelson, Graham-Kevan, Keister, & Grant, 2010;Holtzworth-Munroe, Meehan, Herron, Rehman, & Stuart, 2000;Iyican, Sommer, Kini, & Babcock, 2015;Kiire, 2017;Mager, Bresin, & Verona, 2014;Marshall & Holtzworth-Munroe, 2010;Okano, Langille, & Walsh, 2016;Panuzio et al, 2006;Theobald, Farrington, Coid, & Piquero, 2015;Thornton, Graham-Kevan, & Archer, 2016;Walsh et al, 2010;Wymbs, Dawson, Suhr, Bunford, & Gidycz, 2017) and convicted male batterers (see Table 4; Cunha & Gonçalves, 2013;Harris, Hilton, & Rice, 2011;Hilton, Harris, & Rice, 2001;Hilton, Harris, Rice, Houghton, & Eke, 2008;Hornsveld, Bezuijen, Leenaars, & Kraaimaat, 2008;Juodis, Starzomski, Porter, & Woodworth, 2014a;Kalichman, 1988;Rock, Sellbom, Ben-Porath, & Salekin, 2013;Swogger, Walsh, & Kosson, 2007;Swogger, Walsh, Kosson, Cashman-Brown, & Caine 2012;Taft, Murphy, Musser, & Remington, 2004). …”

“…•EVIDENCE FROM STUDIES CONDUCTED WITH CONVICTED MALE BATTERERS Again, among convicted male batterers, most studies evidenced a significant positive small-to-moderate correlation (.22 ≤ r ≤ .39) between psychopathy and male-to-female IPV perpetration (Harris et al, 2011;Hilton et al, 2008;Rock et al, 2013;Taft et al, 2004).…”