Mary Ann Dutton

TL;DR: Findings provide strong support for the need for early intervention with abused and neglected children and their families to prevent subsequent exposure to traumas and victimization experiences.

TL;DR: The most important research findings in the last 20 years are addressed (health and mental health burden of IPV), the most importantResearch issue for the next decade (pathways between IPV and adverse health outcomes), and the most promising methodological innovation for the study of IPVs (integrated, interdisciplinary, biobehavioral methodology).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply French and Raven's social power model to a conceptualization of coercive control in intimate partner violence relationships, including setting the stage, coercion involving a demand and a credible threat for noncompliance, surveillance, delivery of threatened consequences, and the victim's behavioral and emotional response to coercion.

TL;DR: An interaction between social support and history of violence such that for participants who had experienced the most severe violence, social support did not serve as a protective factor; however, for the other participants, those with the least amount of social support had a 65% predicted probability of reabuse during the next year.

TL;DR: The development of an instrument to measure the nature and extent of battered women’s strategic responses to violence across specific domains of strategies is described, the Intimate Partner Violence Strategies Index, in the context of a longitudinal study of battered girls’ experience over time.