Assessing the Offending Activity of Criminal Domestic Violence Suspects

Offense specialization, escalation, and de-escalation evidence from the spuce assault replication program

By: Piquero AR, Brame R, Fagan J & Moffit TE
Published by: US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2005
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"Using data from the Spouse Abuse Replication Program (SARP), this study examined the extent to which domestic-violence offenders exhibited a specialized proclivity to violence, as well as their tendencies to escalate or de-escalate the severity of their attacks against the same victim.... The study found that the majority of domestic-violence offenders with prior official criminal records had been involved in nonviolent criminal behavior in addition to domestic violence."