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. 2014 Jan;20(1):42-58.
doi: 10.1177/1077801213520580. Epub 2014 Jan 28.

Intimate partner violence and neighborhood income: a longitudinal analysis

Amy E Bonomi  1 , Britton Trabert, Melissa L Anderson, Mary A Kernic, Victoria L Holt
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Intimate partner violence and neighborhood income: a longitudinal analysis

Amy E Bonomi et al. Violence Against Women. 2014 Jan.

Abstract

This investigation used a longitudinal design to examine the relationship between neighborhood-level income, individual-level predictors, and police-reported intimate partner violence in 5,994 urban couples followed over 2 years. At the baseline abuse incident, intimate partner violence rates were highest in the poorest neighborhoods (13.8 per 1,000 women in the lowest income quartile, followed by 12.1, 8.2, and 5.0 in the respective higher income quartiles). However, in the longitudinal analysis, weapon use at the baseline abuse event was a much stronger predictor of repeat abuse (incident rate ratios ranging from 1.72 for physical abuse to 1.83 for non-physical abuse) than neighborhood income.

Keywords: intimate partner violence; longitudinal; risk factors.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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