Journal
JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages 1369-1389Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0886260504269693
Keywords
marital violence; batterer typology; subtypes
Funding
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH 51935] Funding Source: Medline
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Varying levels and types of husband violence may be conceptualized as typologies of maritally violent men. Across studies, batterer subtypes resembling those proposed by Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart (1994) have been identified and generally found to differ in predicted ways. Longitudinal data from this study suggests that the subgroups continued to differ over three years. Over time, however, the placement of individual men into some subtypes was not stable. Whether to best conceptualize the heterogeneity among maritally violent men as differing subtypes or as variability along dimensions is considered. Clinical issues regarding the typology are discussed, including concerti that the use of absolute cut-off points to identify subtypes is premature and consideration of using the typology to predict treatment outcome and to match interventions to subtypes. Regarding future research ideas, it is time to consider more immediate, situational and dyadic, processes leading to violence perpetration within each subtype.
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