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The role of substance abuse
as a contributor to domestic violence.
Griffing, S., Balto, K.R., Sage, R.E., Madry, L., Bingham,
L.E. & Primm,B.J. (June, 1998).
This study examined the impact of substance abuse on the
severity of domestic violence experienced by 201 physically
abused women. As expected, those women who were battered
by men with substance abuse problems (n=127), compared
to those who were battered by men without substance abuse
problems (n=74), were more likely to suffer multiple forms
of violence (p<.05), and reported higher rates of sexual
abuse (p<.01) and financial abuse (p<.005). They
were also more likely to have suffered abuse that involved
a weapon (p<.05) and to have sustained severe physical
injuries (p<.05), and their children were more likely
to have been the direct targets of abuse by the batterer
(p<.05). The finding that abusive men who also use
substances utilized more severe forms of violence toward
female partners and their children, has implications for
intervention programs for batterers and abused women,
as well as for substance abuse treatment programs. |
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