Type:	Journal Article
Title:	The role of substance use in male-to-female physical and sexual violence: a brief review and recommendations for future research
Other Titles:	Journal of interpersonal violence
Authors:	Testa, Maria
Keywords:	Overview;Drug and alcohol misuse;Sexual assault;Perpetrators
Categories:	People with mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	19 (12), December 2004
Notes:	This is a literature review of studies looking at the relationship between substance use and physical and sexual violence against women. It finds there is substantial evidence of a relationship between men’s substance use and perpetration of physical violence, some evidence of a relationship between women’s substance use and experiences of sexual aggression, but weak evidence that men’s substance use contributes to sexual aggression or that women’s substance use contributes to their physical victimisation. The mixed or inconsistent findings suggest that the scope of research questions such as ‘Does substance use influence violence?’ should be narrowed to more refined questions such as ‘Under what circumstances does substance use influence violence?’ and ‘For whom does substance use influence violence?’ It suggests that the substance use / violence relationship is not universal: neither for all people, nor for all circumstances, nor for all measures of substance use. It concludes that global associations may have been interpreted as suggesting causal mechanisms that have led to assumptions that there is stronger evidence linking substance use to violence than there actually is. Future research designs and methodologies on specifying the nature of the substance use / violence relationship are suggested.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12403
ISSN:	0886-2605
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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