NCJ Number
213394
Journal
Child Abuse & Neglect Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Dated: February 2006 Pages: 89-108
Date Published
February 2006
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This New Zealand study analyzed whether exposure to interparental violence as a child predicted subsequent involvement in interpartner violence and violent crime after controlling for possible perplexing factors.
Abstract
In addressing concerns of exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its potential to increase the rate of later interpartner violence and other forms of violence, this study found that the association between reported exposure to domestic violence in childhood and later violent behaviors was only weak and that interpersonal violence tended to be more common among those whose childhoods were characterized by a number of adversities such as socio-economic disadvantage, family dysfunction, and child physical and sexual abuse. The study used data gathered over the course of a 25-year longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 1,265 children born in an urban region of New Zealand during a 4-month period in 1977. It examined the extent to which reported exposure to domestic violence in childhood, prior to age 16 was associated with later perpetration of interpartner violence and violent crime. Tables, references