Women's initiation of physical violence against an abusive partner outside of a violent episode

Fanslow, Janet L.

Women's initiation of physical violence against an abusive partner outside of a violent episode Janet L. Fanslow, Pauline Gulliver, Robyn Dixon and Irene Ayallo - Sage, 2014 - Journal of Interpersonal Violence .

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2015, 30(15): 2659-2682 Recommended reading

This article explores women’s use of physical violence against an abusive male partner, outside of a violent episode. Data were drawn from the New Zealand Violence Against Women Study, a cross-sectional household survey conducted using a population-based cluster-sampling
scheme. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with women initiating physical violence against their male partners. Of the 845 women who had experienced physical violence perpetrated by their intimate partner, 19% reported physically mistreating their partner at least once outside of a male initiated violent episode, while 81% never initiated violence against their partner. Analyses showed that women’s initiation of violence under these circumstances was strongly associated with either or both partners having alcohol problems, her recreational drug use, her number of violent partners, and her mother being hit or beaten by her father when she was a child. (Authors' abstract)


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