Profile of partner aggressors as a function of risk of recidivism

  1. Bartolomé Llor-Esteban 1
  2. Jesús J. García-Jiménez 2
  3. José Antonio Ruiz-Hernández 1
  4. Carmen Godoy-Fernández 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

  2. 2 Centro Penitenciario de Murcia
Revista:
International journal of clinical and health psychology

ISSN: 1697-2600

Any de publicació: 2016

Volum: 16

Número: 1

Pàgines: 39-46

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.IJCHP.2015.05.004 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Altres publicacions en: International journal of clinical and health psychology

Resum

Partner aggressors present psychopathological, criminal, and sociodemographic characteristics that have been used for classification in typologies. The goal of the present work was to identify profile of aggressors as a function of the risk of recidivism, and assess whether there correspondence with type of offenders proposed by Holtzworth–Munroe and Stuart. The sample was made up of 90 men condemned for partner violence, of whom 50 were serving a prison sentence, and 40 mandatory community intervention/programs. The risk of recidivism was assessed with the SARA - Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide, completed with information obtained from prison records, clinical interviews for the assessment of personality disorders, and self-reports. The results reveal three profile of aggressors according to their risk of recidivism, related to the above-mentioned classification: high-risk aggressors coincide with the Dysphoric/Borderline (DB) type, medium-risk aggressors with the low-level antisocial type (LLA), and the low-risk group with the type of aggressors family only (FO). The implications are discussed in the penitentiary intervention of these results.

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