Event Title
Intimate Partner Violence: A Focus on the Offender
Description
PURPOSE: This presentation focuses on the topic of intimate partner violence. IPV is one of the most common and hidden ongoing dark figure crimes in the United States. This issue will be the main focus of this presentation and will cover issues such as victims of IPV, PTSD, teenage dating violence, and stalking. The research will address the issue that there is a lack of info on IPV offenders, how the cycle of violence hypothesis explains the cause of IPV and an updated profile on IPV offenders. SUBJECTS: IPV offenders & victims of child abuse and neglect. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A literature review using Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Bureau of Justice Statistics. RESULTS: Both physical and sexual abuse during childhood showed the most influence on future IPV offending. Furthermore, in terms of contributing new findings to the topic of IPV offenders, social factors such as sexual orientation discrimination and gender discrimination influenced IPV offending. Out of all types of IPV victims, bisexual females experienced the most IPV victimization. Results also showed that there is very limited information on current rates of IPV offending. CONCLUSION: It is important to provide early intervention against child abuse and neglect to prevent victimized youth from learning aggressive behaviors that may be used in future partner violence offending. More research that focuses specifically on IPV offenders is needed. IPV treatment facilities need to change it’s one size-fits-all approaches, to ones that include LGBTQ victims of IPV as well.
Intimate Partner Violence: A Focus on the Offender
PURPOSE: This presentation focuses on the topic of intimate partner violence. IPV is one of the most common and hidden ongoing dark figure crimes in the United States. This issue will be the main focus of this presentation and will cover issues such as victims of IPV, PTSD, teenage dating violence, and stalking. The research will address the issue that there is a lack of info on IPV offenders, how the cycle of violence hypothesis explains the cause of IPV and an updated profile on IPV offenders. SUBJECTS: IPV offenders & victims of child abuse and neglect. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A literature review using Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Bureau of Justice Statistics. RESULTS: Both physical and sexual abuse during childhood showed the most influence on future IPV offending. Furthermore, in terms of contributing new findings to the topic of IPV offenders, social factors such as sexual orientation discrimination and gender discrimination influenced IPV offending. Out of all types of IPV victims, bisexual females experienced the most IPV victimization. Results also showed that there is very limited information on current rates of IPV offending. CONCLUSION: It is important to provide early intervention against child abuse and neglect to prevent victimized youth from learning aggressive behaviors that may be used in future partner violence offending. More research that focuses specifically on IPV offenders is needed. IPV treatment facilities need to change it’s one size-fits-all approaches, to ones that include LGBTQ victims of IPV as well.