Citation

Moffitt TE, Robins RW, Caspi A. Criminol. Public Policy 2001; 1(1): 5-36.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, American Society of Criminology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1745-9133.2001.tb00075.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Research Summary: We studied a representative sample of 360 young-adult couples from a birth cohort. We found abuse was a dyadic process; both partners’ personal characteristics increased abuse risk, and both sexes participated in abuse, particularly in clinical abusive couples having injury and/or official agency intervention. Treating only men may not reduce risk completely for most young couples.