Men Who BatterProfile From a Restraining Order Database
Nancy E. Isaac, ScD;
Donald Cochran, EdD;
Marjorie E. Brown, MS;
Sandra L. Adams
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(1):50-54.
Abstract
Objective
To provide a description of men who batter, using the first 6 months of data entered in a new database that tracks all restraining orders (ROs) that have been issued in Massachusetts.
Design
Descriptive information and survival analyses.
Setting
State of Massachusetts.
Participants
Analysis of 18 369 male defendants against whom ROs were issued from September 8, 1992, to March 9, 1993.
Main Outcome Measures
Descriptive analysis of age and prior criminal record; survival analyses of violation of active ROs and arraignment for violent offenses.
Main Results
Three quarters of defendants are aged 20 to 39 years. A high percentage of men against whom ROs are issued have prior criminal records (74.8%) and nearly half (48.1%) have histories of violent crime. The risk of an order's being violated within 6 months following issuance was 15.4% and the risk of arraignment for some type of violent offense against any victim during this period and while the order was still active was 29.7%.
Conclusions
Men against whom ROs are issued are not a random subsample of the population. The presence of a current or previous RO should alert health practitioners to a situation that may indicate a history of criminal behavior in the man and a continued high risk of violence to the female partner.
Author Affiliations
From the Injury Control Center, Harvard School of Public Health (Dr Isaac), and the Office of the Commissioner of Probation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Dr Cochran and Mss Brown and Adams), Boston, Mass.
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