@article{ref1,
title="Partner violence and risk assessment in child custody evaluations",
journal="Family court review",
year="2001",
author="Austin, William G.",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="483-496",
abstract="How to integrate the problem of partner violence into a child custody evaluation is analyzed within a risk-assessment approach. The research literature on partner violence is reviewed to examine the issues of establishing a base rate for partner violence and its relative frequencies for both genders. Theoretical typologies of partner violence are reviewed and a new typology presented that is more suitable to the predictive task in the custody evaluation. A model of how the evaluator should approach partner violence is described, with an integration of a risk-assessment approach to child developmental outcomes as associated with custody and parenting time arrangements and a violence risk assessment of a perpetrator/parent.<p />",
language="",
issn="1531-2445",
doi="10.1111/j.174-1617.2001.tb00627.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.174-1617.2001.tb00627.x"
}