Citation

Gadd D, Corr ML. Deviant Behav. 2017; 38(7): 781-791.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01639625.2016.1197685

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this article we use a single case study to query the presumption, inherent in typological approaches to domestic violence perpetration, that offender motivations are unchanging and deducible from self-reports and official records. We highlight the need to engage interpretively with the specific meanings acts of violence hold for domestic violence perpetrators-informed, as they can be, by sexist perceptions of entitlement and histories of conflict, suspicion and grievance-and how these can change self-perceptions in the aftermath of assaults and breakups, as the foreground of crime is reincorporated into a background narrative.

Language: en