Citation

Johnson MP, Leone JM, Xu Y. Violence Against Women 2014; 20(2): 186-207.

Affiliation

The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801214521324

PMID

24504325

Abstract

In this article, we argue that past efforts to distinguish among types of intimate partner violence in general survey data have committed a critical error-using data on current spouses to develop operationalizations of intimate terrorism and situational couple violence. We use ex-spouse data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) to develop new operationalizations. We then demonstrate that NVAWS current spouse data contain little intimate terrorism; we argue that this is likely to be the case for all general surveys. In addition, the ex-spouse data confirm past findings regarding a variety of differences between intimate terrorism and situational couple violence, including those predicted by feminist theories.

Language: en