Self-Deception Among Men Who Are Mandated to Attend a Batterer Intervention Program

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn E. Smith
2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Mohr Carney ◽  
Frederick P. Buttell ◽  
John Muldoon

Partner Abuse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Raison ◽  
Donald Dutton

A review of 20 articles (with a collective N of 16,463) was conducted assessing reasons given by perpetrators for their commission of intimate partner violence (IPV). College, community, and batterer intervention program samples were used. Five studies used Follingstad's (1991) Motivation and Effects Questionnaire to assess reported motivations. This had an advantage in standardizing the definitions of motives, which varied widely in other studies. Perpetrators of IPV, whether male or female, do not describe their motives in gender-political terms. Instead, they describe them in psychological terms, such as anger, frustration, or gaining attention. The most frequently endorsed reasons were anger (68% by women, 47% by men) and gaining attention (53% by women, 55% by men). Self-defense was the least endorsed (7th of seven motives). The implications of this finding for the gender paradigm are discussed.


2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily F. Rothman ◽  
Jhumka Gupta ◽  
Carlene Pavlos ◽  
Quynh Dang ◽  
Paula Coutinho

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