Domestic Violence and the Victim/Offender Overlap Across the Life Course

The current article examined the overlap of domestic violence across the life course, connecting childhood abuse and adolescent dating victimization to adult intimate partner victimization, and the connection between these behaviors and adult domestic violence perpetration against partners and child...

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Main Author: Iratzoqui, Amaia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 62, Issue: 9, Pages: 2801-2816
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Domestic violence
Intimate partner violence
Victim/offender overlap
Victimization
Offending
Intimpartnergewalt
Häusliche Gewalt
Offending-Victimization-Overlap
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Summary:The current article examined the overlap of domestic violence across the life course, connecting childhood abuse and adolescent dating victimization to adult intimate partner victimization, and the connection between these behaviors and adult domestic violence perpetration against partners and children. Using three waves of Add Health data, the study found that childhood and adolescent domestic victimization were directly and indirectly linked to adult intimate partner victimization and that domestic violence perpetration also played a role. These findings indicate that offending must be accounted for in tracking patterns of victimization over the life course and that the overlap must more directly be reconciled in current criminal justice policy.
ISSN:1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X17734993