Citation

Winstok Z. Trauma Violence Abuse 2015; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, Center for the Study of Society, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel zeevwin@research.haifa.ac.il.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1524838015596962

PMID

26223242

Abstract

In a recent article, Hamby advocates the replacement of the "old" Conflict Tactic Scales used to measure physical partner violence (PV) with a new measurement instrument that represents and supports a thesis that gender use of physical PV is asymmetrical rather than symmetrical. This article takes a critical look at the logic, assumptions, arguments, examples, interpretations, and conclusions, presented in Hamby's article, and in some cases disagrees with them. Furthermore, this article uses Hamby's proposals as an opportunity to review and examine core issues in the study of perpetration of physical PV, including gender-related theoretical and methodological issues.

Language: en