Prevalence of women's violent and non-violent offending behavior: a comparison of self-reports, victims' reports and third-party reports

Thornton, Abigail Joy, Graham-kevan, Nicola orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0621-3093 and Archer, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0483-1576 (2012) Prevalence of women's violent and non-violent offending behavior: a comparison of self-reports, victims' reports and third-party reports. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27 (8). pp. 1399-1427. ISSN 1552-6518

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260511425789

Abstract

This study assessed women’s violent and nonviolent offending, using data from two online student samples (men and women: n = 344), reporting on either being a perpetrator and witness (women) or being a victim and witness (men). A comprehensive measure of general violence, intimate partner violence (IPV), and nonviolent offending was collected. From women’s self-reports, 59.9% reported perpetrating general violent offenses, 58.1% reported perpetrating IPV offenses and 85.6% reported perpetrating nonviolent offenses. Correlations showed that women were involved in a variety of offenses and demonstrated the interrelatedness of general violence and IPV, and of violent and nonviolent offenses. Regression analysis confirmed the close association between partner and general violence, and found that drug offenses were also related to the former and criminal damage to the latter. Overall, the prevalence data demonstrated women’s involvement in all types of offending, and a similar pattern of offending was supported across data sources. Limitations of the sampling method and measures are discussed.


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