RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 Intimate partner violence: contextual and predictive factors
A1 Pérez Rivas, Natalia
A1 Regueira Diéguez, Antía
A1 Guinarte Cabada, Gumersindo
A1 Muñoz Barús, José Ignacio
A1 Rodríguez Calvo, María Sol
A1 Vázquez-Portomeñe Seijas, Fernando
K1 Gender violence
K1 Victim testimony
K1 Alcohol and drugs abuse
K1 Police and criminal records
AB The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an empirical study focused on criminal and medico-legal aspects of intimate partner violence.MethodFiles classified as gender violence from the prosecutor office of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, NW Spain) were examined and analysed. A descriptive statistical analysis, testing the possible association of variables was carried out with the statistical package SPSS.ResultsEven though the majority of the examined cases ended in conviction, the number of those with a not guilty verdict was considerable. Victim´s own testimony seemed to be one of the strongest evidence of the abuse but her final decision about whether she testifies is mainly influenced by contextual factors which we identified and analyzed in this study. We have verified that alcohol and / or drugs abuse play a significant role in the dynamic of the aggression and that offenders previous police or criminal records is a major factor in predicting future criminal conducts. Our data suggest also that aggressiveness and violence escalate during divorce or separation and that medico-legal documents are an important piece in gender-based violence criminal proceedings.
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33658
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33658
LA eng
NO Pérez Rivas, Natalia / Regueira Diéguez, Antía / Guinarte Cabada, Gumersindo / Muñoz Barús, José Ignacio / Rodríguez Calvo, María Sol / Vázquez-Portomeñe Seijas, Fernando (2013): “Intimate partner violence: contextual and predictive factors”. 13th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Budapest, 4-7 september 2013 [Póster]
NO This proyect was supported by Grants from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (FEM 2010-22350-C02-01 and FEM 2010-22350-C02-02) and from Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (Instituto de la Mujer 181/12).
DS Minerva
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