ABSTRACT
The victim’s/partner’s expectation of being abused again was found to be highly reliable. Bowen et al. (2005) reported that the predictive accuracy of the partner’s expectation of offender
reoffending significantly improved prediction. Weisz, Tolman, and Saunders (2000) found that women’s expectations regarding how likely it was that their partner would become violent during a dispute in the future was the single best predictor of severe violence. Heckert and Gondolf (2004) also found that the women’s perception of risk significantly improved the prediction of repeat assult over prediction with men and women’s characteristics alone. Therefore, it is imperative to include the partner/victim’s report in assessments to provide more reliable assessments of reoffending and for risk of violent reoffense.
