@article{ref1,
title="Profiles of Child Maltreatment Perpetrators and Risk for Fatal Assault: A Latent Class Analysis",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="2009",
author="Yampolskaya, Svetlana and Greenbaum, Paul E. and Berson, Ilene R.",
volume="24",
number="5",
pages="337-348",
abstract="This study examined characteristics and profiles of 196 child maltreatment perpetrators in Florida, including 126 who committed fatal assaults during 1999–2002. Results of logistic regression suggest that being a biologically unrelated caregiver is the strongest predictor of fatal child maltreatment. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to classify perpetrators, and three classes were identified: Biological Mothers with Health Problems, Male Perpetrators with Domestic Violence History, and Multiple-Problem Perpetrators. Results of LCA showed that compared to Biological Mothers with Health Problems, Multiple-Problem Perpetrators were seven times more likely and Male Perpetrators with Domestic Violence History were 12 times more likely to commit a fatal assault. Implications of the findings are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/s10896-009-9233-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-009-9233-8"
}