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Toward a Standard Approach to Operationalizing Coercive Control and Classifying Violence Types.
Jennifer L Hardesty1, Kimberly A Crossman1, Megan L Haselschwerdt2
1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Journal of Marriage and the Family
|September 5, 2015
Summary
This study clarifies intimate partner violence by analyzing coercive control. Measuring frequency of control tactics is more effective than counting tactics for classifying violence types.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Criminology
- Sociology
Background:
- Coercive control is key to differentiating intimate partner violence types.
- Current methods for assessing coercive control lack consistency.
- Distinguishing between coercive controlling violence and situational couple violence is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To compare analytical strategies for operationalizing coercive control.
- To classify types of intimate partner violence.
- To provide a reliable method for assessing coercive control in separated women.
Main Methods:
- Data from 190 divorcing mothers were analyzed.
- Common analytic strategies for coercive control were compared.
- Hierarchical and k-means clustering methods were used to identify patterns.
Main Results:
- Measuring coercive control by frequency, not just number of tactics, offers advantages.
- Clustering solutions were evaluated for identifying patterns of coercive control.
- A cutoff for the Dominance-Isolation subscale was suggested for classifying violence types.
Conclusions:
- The study establishes frequency of coercive control as a superior metric.
- It validates clustering methods for violence type classification.
- Findings aid in understanding associations between violence types and post-separation outcomes.
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