Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are at high risk for repeat victimization. Repeat victimization by an intimate partner increases women's risk of injuries, disabilities, and death. Identifying women who are most at risk is important because it allows for preventive action with both victims and perpetrators. Among those identification methods most successfully used is the Danger Assessment-2 (DA-2), a tool that is both sensitive and specific in identifying women at risk for repeat violent victimization and homicide in heterosexual intimate relationships. The extent to which this important risk assessment tool can predict repeat victimization in female same-sex IPV relationships, however, is unknown. Our long-rattge goal is to reduce the risk of negative health outcomes, including fatal and near fatal injuries, among women in same-sex intimate relationships through the development and utilization of effective culturally competent, community-partnered interventions and policies. The objective for this proposal is to scientifically evaluate for the first time the effectiveness of a previously validated, fi'equently used instrument to assess the risk of repeat violent victimization of women in abusive same-sex intimate relationships. This new investigator proposal is highly dependent on mentorship and consultation from violence-related injury research experts and collaboration with community agencies. Established partnerships ensure our access to a statewide ethnically diverse sample of 248 adult female victims and perpetrators in current or past-year abusive same-sex intimate relationships to participate in focus groups and complete survey questionnaires. The knowlcdgc generated from this pilot study will: 1) provide a validated outcomes instrument for future intervention studies with sexual minority victims and erpetrators; 2) assist health care professionals, domestic violence and victim advocates, law enforcement, the judiciary, and probation officers to promote'the health and safety of women from diverse communities; and 3) improve access to culturally appropriate community resources.
| Hassouneh, Dena; Glass, Nancy (2008) The influence of gender role stereotyping on women's experiences of female same-sex intimate partner violence. Violence Against Women 14:310-25 |
| Glass, Nancy; Perrin, Nancy; Hanson, Ginger et al. (2008) Risk for reassault in abusive female same-sex relationships. Am J Public Health 98:1021-7 |
