ABSTRACT
Risk assessment measures are increasingly used to evaluate offenders charged with intimate partner violence (IPV). Scales currently available for this purpose suffer from two important limitations: First, several well-established risk factors from research with general offenders are excluded from most IPV scales, including age, deviant peer associations, and antisocial attitudes. Further research is needed to determine whether these factors should be included in the next generation of IPV risk measures. Second, all of the existing scales have been validated solely for use with males despite increased arrests among women. This study sought to investigate both of these issues using a large sample of male and female IPV offenders. The results highlight gender differences in risk factors for recidivism.
