Intimate partner violence and neighborhood income: a longitudinal analysis.
This investigation used a longitudinal design to examine the relationship between neighborhood-level income, individual-level predictors, and police-reported intimate partner violence in 5,994 urban couples followed over 2 years. At the baseline abuse incident, intimate partner violence rates were highest in the poorest neighborhoods (13.8 per 1,000 women in the lowest income quartile, followed by 12.1, 8.2, and 5.0 in the respective higher income quartiles). However, in the longitudinal analysis, weapon use at the baseline abuse event was a much stronger predictor of repeat abuse (incident rate ratios ranging from 1.72 for physical abuse to 1.83 for non-physical abuse) than neighborhood income.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
Amy E
AE
Bonomi
Britton
B
Trabert
Melissa L
ML
Anderson
Mary A
MA
Kernic
Victoria L
VL
Holt
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016014:Linear Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016495:Police; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014861:Washington / Q000453:epidemiology; D054041:Weapons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
intimate partner violence; longitudinal; risk factors