Understanding Verbal Violence Perpetration Among Intimate Partner Stalkers Using Police-Identified Psychological Distress and Drug Use.

IF 1.3 4区 医学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Ebonnie Landwehr, David Garratt-Reed, Chloe Maxwell-Smith
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Abstract

Background: Stalkers' perpetration of verbal violence causes victims adverse mental health consequences, yet little research has examined this behaviour. Identifying correlates of verbal violence, as present in police data, could support the development of evidence-based practical strategies for police.

Aims: To understand the relationship between men's psychological distress or substance use, as identified by police, and their verbal violence against their female intimate partner stalking victims.

Methods: Data were extracted from anonymised police records of 603 men in Western Australia linked to a stalking offence in relation to a woman who is or was their intimate partner. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine whether police-identified psychological distress or drug use, as described in police incident reports, was significantly associated with verbal violence perpetration. Separate models were used to assess different expressions of verbal violence: 'death/injury/sexual assault threats' to the victim or of 'other verbal violence' only, and of the binary aggregate of these groups.

Results: Police-identified psychological distress (OR = 2.3-3.1) and drug use (OR = 2.1-2.2) were independently associated with reported verbal violence perpetration. Different patterns of findings emerged when verbal violence expression was differentiated across four contrasting groups. The model comparing 'death/injury/sexual assault threats' with 'no verbal violence recorded' explained over four times the variance of the model comparing 'other verbal violence only' with 'no verbal violence recorded'. Physical violence was also relevant for understanding verbal violence perpetration.

Conclusions: This study is the first to explore correlates of intimate partner stalkers' verbal violence perpetration. According to police records, verbal violence was differentially associated with psychological distress, drug use and physical violence according to type of verbal violence and comparison group. These differences suggest that verbal violence expression types should be considered separately when intervening and within research designs.

利用警方认定的心理困扰和药物使用来理解亲密伴侣跟踪者的言语暴力行为。
背景:跟踪者的言语暴力行为会给受害者造成不良的心理健康后果,但很少有研究对这种行为进行调查。识别警方数据中存在的言语暴力的相关因素,可以支持为警察制定基于证据的实用战略。目的:了解警方认定的男性心理困扰或物质使用与他们对女性亲密伴侣跟踪受害者的言语暴力之间的关系。方法:数据是从西澳大利亚603名男性的匿名警方记录中提取的,这些男性与一名女性的跟踪犯罪有关,该女性是或曾经是他们的亲密伴侣。使用逻辑回归分析来检验警察认定的心理困扰或吸毒是否与言语暴力行为显著相关,如警察事件报告所述。使用不同的模型来评估语言暴力的不同表达:对受害者的“死亡/伤害/性侵犯威胁”或仅“其他语言暴力”,以及这些群体的二元总和。结果:警察认定的心理困扰(OR = 2.3-3.1)和药物使用(OR = 2.1-2.2)与报告的言语暴力犯罪独立相关。当语言暴力表达在四个不同的群体中分化时,发现的不同模式出现了。将“死亡/伤害/性侵犯威胁”与“无语言暴力记录”进行比较的模型解释了“只有其他语言暴力”与“无语言暴力记录”的模型差异的四倍以上。身体暴力也与理解言语暴力有关。结论:本研究首次探讨了亲密伴侣跟踪者言语暴力实施的相关因素。根据警方的记录,根据语言暴力的类型和对照组,语言暴力与心理困扰、吸毒和身体暴力的关系存在差异。这些差异表明,在干预和研究设计中应分别考虑言语暴力表达类型。
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期刊介绍: Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health – CBMH – aims to publish original material on any aspect of the relationship between mental state and criminal behaviour. Thus, we are interested in mental mechanisms associated with offending, regardless of whether the individual concerned has a mental disorder or not. We are interested in factors that influence such relationships, and particularly welcome studies about pathways into and out of crime. These will include studies of normal and abnormal development, of mental disorder and how that may lead to offending for a subgroup of sufferers, together with information about factors which mediate such a relationship.
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