title: Accounting for intimate partner violence perpetration. A cross-cultural comparison of English and Brazilian male substance users' explanations.
abstract: This paper describes how substance use features in the accounts of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators in treatment in England and Brazil. The aim of the research was to better understand cross cultural constructions of IPV perpetration amongst men in treatment for substance use.
  
  
  
  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 men in community substance use treatment in Sao Paolo, Brazil and London and the South East of England who had reported IPV perpetration in a questionnaire survey. A thematic, narrative analysis was carried out of men's explanations for IPV perpetration.
  
  
  
  Three types of narratives were distinguished: (i) disputes, centred on substance use, that escalate to IPV perpetration; (ii) IPV perpetration that is explained by uncharacteristic loss of control, as a result of intoxication; and (iii) IPV perpetration provoked by a perceived betrayal, in which substance use is incidental. In all types of accounts hegemonic principles of male and female roles and behaviour provided a context for and make IPV perpetration explicable.
  
  
  
  Substance use and IPV are culturally constructed and contextually defined. Understanding the meaning-making of substance using IPV perpetrators has implications for the treatment of both substance abuse and IPV. [Radcliffe P, d'Oliveira AFPL, Lea S, dos Santos Figueiredo W, Gilchrist G. Accounting for intimate partner violence perpetration. A cross-cultural comparison of English and Brazilian male substance users' explanations. Drug Alcohol Rev 2017;36:64-71].
authors: National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Polly
authors: P
authors: Radcliffe
authors: Gender Violence and Health Research Group, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors: Ana Flávia Pires Lucas
authors: AF
authors: d'Oliveira
authors: University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Lea
authors: Centre for Biological and Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors: Wagner
authors: W
authors: Dos Santos Figueiredo
authors: National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Gail
authors: G
authors: Gilchrist
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D055030:Drug Users / Q000523:psychology*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: account; gender; intimate partner violence; perpetration; substance use