NCJ Number
195576
Journal
Violence and Victims Volume: 17 Issue: 2 Dated: April 2002 Pages: 115-125
Editor(s)
Roland D. Maiuro Ph.D.
Date Published
April 2002
Length
11 pages
Annotation
The article details the authors study of suicidal behaviors among male domestic violence perpetrators
Abstract
The article describes the authors' study of overt non-lethal suicidal behavior exhibited by partner violent-men. Study data were collected via interviews with 101 women seeking orders of protection from their male partners via the Monroe County, New York Domestic Violence and Intensive Intervention Court. The study was designed to test 3 hypotheses. Specifically, whether a greater proportion of study subjects’ partners would have a history of threatened and attempted suicide as compared with the general population; whether this suicidal behavior among the men was present and observed by the partner in the recent past leading up to the court petition; and that domestic violence perpetrators who also had a history of non-lethal suicidal behavior also tended to engage in more severe domestic violence than their non-suicidal counterparts. The data supported findings that male domestic violence perpetrators were more likely to exhibit suicidal behavior than the general male population. Additionally suicidal threats, but not suicide attempts, clustered prior to the court petition and, finally, that men with suicidal behavior history did tend towards more severe domestic violence behavior. 2 tables, 65 references