Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Domestic violence and children: prevalence and risk in five major US cities
Other Titles:	Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Authors:	Atkins, Marc Marcus, Susan Fantuzzo, John W Boruch, Robert Beriama, Abdullah
Keywords:	Risk factors;Impact on children and young people;Policing
Year:	1997
Publisher:	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Citation:	36 (1), January 1997
Notes:	Data were drawn from the Spouse Assault Replication Program (SARP) database collected from police officers and female victims in five cities in the United States. Researchers interviewed women within weeks of a police response to a domestic violence call and a second time six months after the incident. The study found that children were disproportionately present in households where there was a substantiated incident of adult female assault and that children under five years of age were disproportionately represented among these ‘witnessing’ children. Children aged five years and under were more likely than older children to be exposed to multiple incidents of domestic violence over a six-month period. The households in which domestic violence occurred included high levels of additional developmental risk factors including poverty and parental substance abuse. An additional finding was that a substantial proportion of children in these households were involved in the incident by calling for help, being identified as a major precipitant cause of the dispute that led to the violence or being physically abused by the perpetrator.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14318
ISSN:	8908567
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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