Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Assessing assault self-reports by batterer program participants and their partners
Other Titles:	Journal of family violence
Authors:	Gondolf, Edward W Heckert, D. Alex
Keywords:	Perpetrators
Year:	2000
Publisher:	Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers
Citation:	15 (2), 2000
Notes:	Self-report inventories on domestic violence, such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS), have been the basis of court and clinical decision making. Most studies investigating the reliability of violence self-reports have used the general population, whereas those using clinical populations are very rare. This US study attempts to extend the research on reliability of self-reports of violence in clinical samples through analyses of a multisite database of court-mandated batterers and their female partners (N=840). The authors firstly assess concurrent validity of self-reports by comparing men’s, women’s and police reports of male to female violence; secondly, by examining the agreement of men’s and women’s self-reports of the men’s violence at intake and at 12-month follow-up; and thirdly, by summarising a qualitative review of men’s and women’s descriptions of assaultive episodes. The study’s two hypothesis underpin previous research and test: whether women’s reports of male violence will be more accurate and have greater validity than the men’s reports; and whether batterer-partner agreement will be lower at intake than at follow-up because of program intervention and a decrease in the rate of male under reporting (refer to p. 187 for good explanation of this term). The findings do not support either hypothesis, which leads to a number of implications for both, the program procedures and evaluation research, which are well explored in the Discussion section of this article (p.192).
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13463
ISSN:	0885-7482
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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