TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Self-defense, retaliation, and gender: clarifying motivations for physical partner violence
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Leisring, Penny A.
A1  - Grigorian, Hannah L.
SP  - 949
EP  - 953
VL  - 31
IS  - 8
N2  - The motivations behind intimate partner violence (IPV) have been a controversial topic. It has been suggested that women's use of IPV mainly occurs in the context of self-defense (Saunders 1986). However, men also report perpetrating IPV in self-defense (Harned 2001; Makepeace 1986). This article differentiates self-defense from retaliation and reviews findings regarding these motives for perpetrators of IPV. Self-defense motives are common among battered women; however, undergraduates and arrested perpetrators often report other motives. Women do not consistently report using violence in self-defense more than men do. Clinical and research implications are discussed and existing self-defense measures are critiqued.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-016-9874-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -