Citation

McCloskey KA, Sitaker M, Grigsby N, Malloy KA. J. Aggression Maltreat. Trauma 2006; 13(1): 21-42.

Affiliation

Univ of Hartford Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology, Hartford, CT, USA; Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, Lexington, KY; Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Wright State Univ. (mccloskey@hartford.edu)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1300/J146v13n01_02

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article presents gender, age, and race comparisons of perpetrators of adult intimate partner violence (IPV) obtained from: (a) a mid-size metropolitan police department, (b) a victim advocacy agency located in the same city, and (c) a batterer intervention program also in the same city. Results showed found that: (a) the overwhelming majority of IPV perpetrators were male, (b) perpetrators were likely to be between the ages of 20-39, (c) racial demographics varied with the type of IPV intervention agency, and (d) People of Color were over-represented in police calls. This effort confirms the importance of obtaining information from varied community sources in order to provide a more complete picture of local IPV perpetrator demographics, especially racial characteristics.