title: Child and adolescent predictors of male intimate partner violence.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study addresses to what extent child and adolescent explanatory factors predict male perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood.
  
  
  METHODS
  We use prospective longitudinal data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD). The CSDD is a survey of 411 male born in the 1950s in an inner London area. The men were interviewed over a period of 40 years with information also gathered from their parents, peers and teachers and later from their female partners.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Family factors such as having a criminal father, a disrupted family, poor supervision and relationship problems with parents predicted later IPV. Individual predictors included unpopularity, daring, impulsivity, aggressiveness and low verbal IQ. There was evidence of cumulative risk for later violence in intimate partnerships.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early childhood factors predict adult male IPV. No other study has showed the predictability of IPV over a 40-year time interval in a prospective survey. The IPV men tended to have convictions for violence and tended to be unsuccessful in areas such as employment, drinking and drug use.
authors: Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. dt323@cam.ac.uk
authors: Delphine
authors: D
authors: Theobald
authors: David P
authors: DP
authors: Farrington
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods; D008131:London / Q000453:epidemiology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology; D012928:Social Desirability; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data