title: When does intimate partner violence continue after separation?
abstract: Over their lifetime, approximately 10% of all women become victims of postseparation stalking or assault. We use a nationally representative survey of separated Swedish women to examine whether men who strive to control their partners during their relationships are more likely to stalk or assault their ex-partners after separation. The empirical analysis shows that basic measures of control behaviors explain 18% of the variance in stalking victimization and 8% of the assault victimization. Moreover, the predictive values of our measures of control by far surpass those of other common risk markers included in the analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Uppsala University and Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, P.O. Box 513, Uppsala, SE-75120, Sweden. petra.ornstein@statistics.uu.se
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ornstein
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rickne
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D003068:Coercion; D019548:Crime Victims; D003625:Data Collection; D004243:Divorce; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012307:Risk Factors; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013179:Spouse Abuse; D055807:Stalking; D013548:Sweden; D014754:Violence
keywords: control behaviors; domestic violence; postseparation assault; stalking