Elderly abuse – a forensic case of homicide-suicide as act of intimate partner violence

Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence

Domestic Violence. “The relationship between substance abuse (SA) and intimate partner violence (IPV) is complex and should not be reduced to ideas about one causing the other. Many theoretical perspectives explain the co-occurrence of SA and IPV including: substance use disruption of thinking processes; adverse childhood experiences; power motivation; during the process of obtaining and using ...

Global estimates of homicide risk related to intimate partner violence.

Normative misperceptions of abuse among perpetrators of intimate partner violence.

This research was designed to evaluate the applicability of social norms approaches to interventions with male perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). Participants included 124 nonadjudicated IPV perpetrating men recruited from the general population who completed assessment of their own IPV behaviors via telephone interviews and estimated the prevalence of behaviors in other men. Resu...

Interpretations of Domestic Violence: Defining Intimate Partner Abuse

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Musculoskeletal manifestations of physical abuse after intimate partner violence.

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is the most common cause of nonfatal injury to women in the United States, with an estimated cost of $50 billion annually. Little is known about the spectrum of musculoskeletal injuries in victims of domestic violence. We examined the characteristics of abused women, the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries, and the variables associated with increasing frequency o...