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- Title
The Intersection of Stalking and the Severity of Intimate Partner Abuse.
- Authors
Brady, Patrick Q.; Hayes, Brittany E.
- Abstract
Using data from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (N = 464), this study examined the intersection of stalking and the severity of intimate partner abuse while controlling for previously identified risk factors of intimate partner homicide. Findings indicate that (a) victims of life-threatening abuse by an intimate partner were significantly more likely to experience stalking than victims of nonlethal abuse; (b) after controlling for key risk factors, stalking increased the risk of life-threatening abuse; and (c) threats to kill the victim if she left was the only significant stalking-related behavior that increased the risk for life-threatening abuse. In addition, an offender's prior record and a higher number of previous abusive incidents increased the risk of life-threatening abuse. Implications for prevention and future directions for research are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ILLINOIS; PREVENTION of stalking; STALKING; INTIMATE partner violence; DOMESTIC violence; PREVENTION of the abuse of women; PSYCHOLOGY; ABUSED women; CRIMINALS; HOMICIDE; INTERPERSONAL relations; CRIME victims; WOMEN'S health; SEXUAL partners
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1891/0886-6708.v33.i2.193