Offending competency and coercive control in intimate partner violence

Day, Andrew; Bowen, Erica

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2014.12.004

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“…Our research fills important gaps that exist in the literature on controlling behavior, despite a known connection between controlling behavior and physical and sexual IPV (Day & Bowen, 2015; Naved, 2013; Robertson & Murachver, 2011). Previous research has shown that women who experience coercive control and other forms of psychological violence have worse outcomes than women never exposed to violence, even without the occurrence of physical or sexual IPV (Ellsberg, Jansen, Heise, Watts, & Garcia-Moreno, 2008), confirming the need to examine the impact of coercive control above and beyond that of other forms of IPV.…”

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Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

James‐Hawkins¹,

Cheong²,

Naved³

et al. 2018

Psychology of Violence

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Objective: Coercive control in marriage is common in patriarchal settings, but multilevel determinants are understudied.Method: Using a probability sample of 570 junior men (married, 18-34 years) from the Bangladesh survey of the 2011 UN Multi-Country Study of Men and Violence, we examined how exposure to violence in childhood and community-level gender norms were related to men's attitudes about gender equity and use of controlling behavior. We tested whether community-level gender norms moderated the relationship between men's exposure to violence in childhood and our outcomes.Results: According to results from multilevel Poisson regression models, as community gender norms become more equitable by 1 standard deviation, a junior married man's expected rate of controlling behavior is lower by 0.11, and his rate of agreement with gender equitable attitudes is higher by 0.27. More genderequitable community norms were negatively related to a junior married man's use of controlling behavior.Childhood exposure to violence was not associated with use of controlling behavior. There was a significant cross-level interaction such that exposure to violence had a stronger negative impact on men's gender equitable attitudes in communities with lower overall gender equity than those with higher overall gender equity. The corresponding cross-level interaction effect was not significant for the controlling behavior outcome. Conclusions:More equitable community gender norms may encourage more gender-equitable attitudes and discourage use of controlling behavior among junior men, suggesting that interventions to change community gender norms may reduce coercive control of women in marriage.

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confidence: 84%

Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

James‐Hawkins¹,

Cheong²,

Naved³

et al. 2018

Psychology of Violence

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“…The couples may have tried to conceal any trouble in their relationships from their neighbors, which would explain why neighbors’ comments regarding the homicide-offender were more favorable than comments by the family. This disparity in the comments may reflect “the charm of an abusive spouse” (23), who shows an affable side to his neighbors, while the family witnesses his controlling and jealous behaviors.…”

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Archival data review of intimate partner homicide-suicide in Jamaica, 2007 – 2017: focus on mental health and community response

Pottinger¹,

Bailey²,

Passard³

2017

Rev Panam Salud Publica

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Objective. To identify social and behavioral patterns and mental health concerns associated with intimate partner homicide-suicide (IPHS) in Jamaica through an analysis of media and police reports. Methods. This was an archival data review of police records and print, radio, and television reports of IPHS incidents from January 2007-June 2017 in Jamaica. The 27 cases found were qualitatively analyzed using pre-identified codes and open coding to generate themes and patterns. Results. A prevalence rate of 0.1 per 100 000 was determined. In all cases, males were the homicide-offender. Sociodemographic patterns associated with IPHS incidents-age, personality traits, choice of weapon, and time of occurrence-were consistent with previous findings. Common triggers were offender obsession, sexual jealousy, and fear of separation. Despite reports of mental health concerns in both male and female partners, neither the couples nor community members sought help prior to the homicide-suicide. Conclusion. These findings demand a change in cultural attitudes toward domestic disputes and mental health concerns, and a redefining of the community's responsibility in IPHS. The warning signs associated with IPHS should be part of existing violence and suicide prevention programs.

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“…Consider the significant technical knowledge and skill associated with computer hacking (Holt, Bossler, & Seigfried-Spellar, 2015); the competent interpersonal skill displayed in certain forms of identity theft (Vieraitis, Copes, Powell, & Pike, 2015); or the planning, grooming, and deception required to elude detection in the predatory child molester (Fortune, Bourke, & Ward, 2015;Ward, 1999). Such "expertise" has also been reported in social cue processing in street criminals (Topalli, 2005); the procedural scripts of arsonists (Butler & Gannon, 2015); the practiced coercion and control used in the planning and execution of murder (Brookman, 2015), domestic abuse (Day & Bowen, 2015), and rape Ó Ciardha, 2015; and finally the perceptual and procedural scripts of carjackers (Topalli, Jacques, & Wright, 2015).…”

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Learning on the job: Studying expertise in residential burglars using virtual environments*

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In this article, we describe a quasi‐experiment in which experienced incarcerated burglars (n = 56), other offenders (n = 50), and nonoffenders (n = 55) undertook a mock burglary within a virtual neighborhood. We draw from the cognitive psychology literature on expertise and apply it to offending behavior, demonstrating synergy with rational choice perspectives, yet extending them in several respects. Our principal goal was to carry out the first robust test of expertise in offenders by having these groups undertake a burglary in a fully fledged reenactment of a crime in a virtual environment. Our findings indicate that the virtual environment successfully reinstated the context of the crime showing clear differences in the decision making of burglars compared with other groups in ways commensurate with expertise in other behavioral domains. Specifically, burglars scoped the neighborhood more thoroughly, spent more time in the high‐value areas of the crime scene while traveling less distance there, and targeted different goods from the comparison groups. The level of detail in the data generated sheds new light on the cognitive processes and actions of burglars and how they “learn on the job.” Implications for criminal decision‐making perspectives and psychological theories of expertise are discussed.

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Offending competency and coercive control in intimate partner violence

Cited by 28 publications

References 71 publications

Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

Archival data review of intimate partner homicide-suicide in Jamaica, 2007 – 2017: focus on mental health and community response

Learning on the job: Studying expertise in residential burglars using virtual environments*

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