Citation

Mears DP, Carlson MJ, Holden GW, Harris SD. J. Interpers. Violence 2001; 16(12): 1260-1283.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/088626001016012003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines the role of individual and contextual factors and legal interventions in reducing time to domestic violence revictimization. Drawing on current theory and research, hypotheses are deduced about the effects of these factors. Cox regression and survival analyses are employed to test the hypotheses using court, police, and census data from an urban jurisdiction in Texas. Prior drug use, race/ethnicity, and community-level income were associated with time to revictimization. However, there was little evidence either of interactive effects between race/ethnicity and community-level income or of differential effects of each of three types of legal interventions. Implications for theory, research, and domestic violence interventions are discussed.