CRM/LAW C118 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Dangerous Offender, Abusive Power And Control, Psychopharmacology
13 Feb 2019
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Recognizes that perpetration is not homogenous & can be perpetrated by males & females in heterosexual & same sex relationships. Do not necessarily have to be physically abusive to be a perpetrator. Batterers often do not recognize their own behavior as abusive & typically underestimate the severity of their behavior & negative impact on victims. Believe that ipv is normative & more common than it actually is. Chapter 9 intimate partner abuse in adult relationships: focusing on perpetrators. No single factor produces violent & abusive behavior -> ipv perpetration result of interaction of multiple factors (both individual & structural) Gender symmetry/gender parity debate = argument among ipv researchers about whether women are as violent as men. Cts & cts2 frequently find that women & men perpetrate ipv at nearly equivalent rates, sometimes with women perpetrating more. Nearly all other indicators of ipv (arrests, police reports, homicides, witness reports) show significantly greater male perpetration.
