Citation

Gondolf EW, Beeman AK. Violence Against Women 2003; 9(3): 278-301.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801202250072

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study compared battered women’s accounts of violence with tactics-based outcomes to assess the measurement limitations in predicting recurring violence. Accounts of 536 incidents were collected from 299 women at batterer program intake and at 3-month intervals over a 15-month follow-up. Each incident was coded using a sequential, situational model of violence, and the incident codings were summarized for each woman. The components of violent incidents did not correspond to any particular tactics-based outcomes. The female partners of men who repeatedly reassaulted them were, however, less assertive than those of non-reassaulters. A small subgroup did commit unrelenting and excessive violence across the reassault categories.