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This study uses longitudinal data to identify “risk markers” for reassault among batterer program participants. Data are from 308 men and their partners collected at five, 3-month intervals. Time-varying situational and behavioral risk factors, as well as time-invariant individual characteristics, are examined. The most influential risk markers, in terms of relative risk and level of statistical significance, were time-varying: 2 measures of the man's drunkenness during the follow-up interval in which the reassault occurred (OR: 3.5-16.3; p > .0005). Other included time-varying batterer characteristics had no significant effect on reassault. Two significant time-invariant batterer risk factors were (1) severe psychopathology and (2) a history of non-domestic-violence arrest, both measured at intake. Results suggest that batterers' drinking behavior after program intake may provide an important and easily observed “marker” for risk of reassault and that prediction of reassault with individual risk factors at program intake remains problematical.
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Jones, A.S., Gondolf, E.W. Time-Varying Risk Factors for Reassault Among Batterer Program Participants. Journal of Family Violence 16, 345–359 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012268725273
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