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Women’s Accounts of Domestic Violence Versus Tactics-Based Outcome Categories

Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute

Angie K. Beeman

University of Connecticut

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.

Key Words: accounts of violence • domestic violence measurement • violence prediction • methodology

Violence Against Women, Vol. 9, No. 3, 278-301 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801202250072


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