Life Course and Intergenerational Continuity of Intimate Partner Aggression and Physical Injury: A 20-Year Study

Knight, Kelly E.; Menard, Scott; Simmons, Sara; Bouffard, Leana A.; Orsi, Rebecca

doi:10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-14-00188

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“…It is well established that witnessing domestic violence as a child can have negative impacts on the child’s emotional, psychological, and social well-being (Kitzmann et al, 2003) and have lifelong consequences (Knight et al, 2016). Although the majority of child abuse cases are processed by child welfare agencies, police involvement has been overlooked and under-researched.…”

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“…In addition, continuity of intimate partner violence over time has been documented in the literature (Aldarondo, 1996; Connelly et al, 2006; Cui, Ueno, Gordon, & Fincham, 2013; Feld & Straus, 1989; Gordis, Margolin, & Vickerman, 2005; Lohman, Neppl, Senia, & Schofield, 2013; Mihalic & Menard, 1994; O’Leary et al, 1989). Using self-reported data from a national probability sample, Knight, Menard, Simmons, Bouffard, and Orsi (2016) show that past involvement in intimate partner aggression is a strong predictor of subsequent intimate partner aggression over a 19-year period. Studies of law enforcement response to domestic violence also suggest that recidivism is high.…”

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Predictors of Child Abuse Charges Within the Context of Domestic Violence Arrests

Roark

Knight

Olson

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Crime & Delinquency

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This article investigates how different factors of a domestic violence incident impact the likelihood of a child abuse charge within the context of domestic violence arrests. Data from 5,148 domestic violence arrests were used to test whether domestic violence-, incident-, and child-based predictors increased the likelihood of a child abuse charge. Logistic regression models of gender-stratified samples were employed to test for gender differences among domestic violence arrestees. The results demonstrated predictors affected men’s odds of a child abuse charge when compared with women. For men and women, children witnessing the domestic violence incident had the largest impact on a child abuse charge. These results contribute to the underdeveloped area of police response to child abuse in domestic violence cases.

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Predictors of Child Abuse Charges Within the Context of Domestic Violence Arrests

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Knight

Olson

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Crime & Delinquency

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“…There is currently a dearth of studies that use multiple waves of data garnered from prospective longitudinal studies that address the limitations of prior research. These limitations include the use of cross-sectional or shortterm follow-up studies, male-only studies, female-only studies, and measurement anomalies (Knight et al, 2016). Knight and colleagues investigated both the perpetration and victimization of IPV and found a stronger association for intergenerational transmission for female offspring.…”

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Intergenerational Continuity of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: An Investigation of Possible Mechanisms

Shakoor

Theobald

Farrington

2020

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a continuum of abuse that is associated with a number of negative outcomes including substance misuse, depression, and suicidal ideation. This study aims to investigate the intergenerational transmission of IPV perpetration and the mechanisms involved. Intergenerational transmission was investigated using information from two generations of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development which is a prospective longitudinal study of 411 males from an inner London area in the UK who have been followed up over a period of 50 years. Information with regard to IPV perpetration, specifically physical violence, was garnered from self-reports by the male at age 32, from their female partner at age 48, and from their male and female children in early adulthood. Regression analyses were used to investigate intergenerational transmission and examine whether psychosocial risk factors could be identified as potential intergenerational pathways. Having a father who was a perpetrator of IPV significantly increased the odds of daughters being perpetrators by 2 times. It did not significantly increase the odds for sons. The intergenerational transmission of IPV perpetration remains between fathers and their daughters over and above a series of psychosocial factors such as accommodation problems and alcohol misuse. Identification of factors associated with the intergenerational transmission of IPV perpetration will inform practitioners and policymakers. Information garnered from studies such as this may contribute to the development of prevention and intervention strategies for those at risk.

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“…This is not to say that all providers had successfully escaped abuse. As research shows, for those involved in abusive relationships, it is commonly a pattern across the life course and intergenerationally (Knight, Menard, Simmons, Bouffard, & Orsi, 2016). Patricia, a middle-aged domestic violence shelter worker who regularly helped clients secure orders of protection, told us, And then when I was working here, after I was divorced, I was dating a guy and I broke up with him.…”

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Advancing a Model of Secondary Trauma: Consequences for Victim Service Providers

Ellis

Knight

2018

J Interpers Violence

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A burgeoning body of scholarship is attempting to understand, normalize, and ameliorate the emotional strain of victim service provision. The literature, however, has yet to fully theorize the hazardous process of empathetic engagement with victims. As a result, concepts, mechanisms, and outcomes are often conflated, making it difficult to understand the etiological path of this occupational risk. The goal of this article is to attend to this gap by accomplishing three objectives. The first is to engage with the perspective of symbolic interaction to theoretically ground a conceptual model of secondary trauma. The second objective is to propose a model of secondary trauma that acknowledges its inherently interactional, interpretive, and, thus, vicariously transmissible nature. The third objective is to begin the work of empirically supporting this model with data from a sample of victim service providers ( n = 94) collected using in-depth interviews, focus groups, ethnographic participant observation, and community-based participatory research. Our findings suggest that victim service provision, in the form of empathetic engagement, can blur the boundary between self and other, and lead to a sense of damage in the self that manifests in unreliable self-agency, untrustworthy coherence of other, desensitized self-affectivity, and fractured self-history. This work has significant implications. We illustrate an important paradox by showing how victim service provision can be helpful to victims but harmful to providers. We also offer a pathway for reducing this harm. By specifying mechanisms of damage, the model can be used to inform policies and practices supportive of victim service providers' health and well-being.

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Life Course and Intergenerational Continuity of Intimate Partner Aggression and Physical Injury: A 20-Year Study

Cited by 16 publications

References 65 publications

Predictors of Child Abuse Charges Within the Context of Domestic Violence Arrests

Predictors of Child Abuse Charges Within the Context of Domestic Violence Arrests

Intergenerational Continuity of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: An Investigation of Possible Mechanisms

Advancing a Model of Secondary Trauma: Consequences for Victim Service Providers

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