Objectives

We assess the proposed mechanisms outlined in Agnew’s General Theory of Crime and Delinquency about gender differences in crime and deviance (gender differences are due to differences between males and females in their standing on the life domains or differences in the effect of the life domains on the phenomenon among males and females) in accounting for sex differences in intimate partner violence (IPV) among a sample of young adults.

Methods

Drawing data from the International Dating Violence Study (IDVS) and employing the negative binomial regression method, we examined the effects of six self-domains, four family domains, one school/work domain, and one peer domain measures on IPV.

Results

Although males reported a higher frequency across all five life domains compared to females, the number of life domain variables that were significantly related to IPV among females was greater than the number among males. Further, the effects of the life domain variables on IPV were different for males and females with the peer variable (criminal peers) exhibiting the greatest effect on IPV among males and the self-domain (anger issues) demonstrating the greatest effect on IPV among females.

Conclusions

Agnew’s theory is well suited to assess sex differences in IPV.

中文翻译：

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性别、生活领域和亲密伴侣暴力犯罪：对阿格纽犯罪和犯罪一般理论的部分检验

目标

我们评估了 Agnew 的《犯罪与犯罪通论》中提出的关于犯罪和越轨行为中的性别差异的机制（性别差异是由于男性和女性在生活领域的立场差异或生活领域对男性和女性之间的现象）来解释年轻成人样本中亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）中的性别差异。

方法

从国际约会暴力研究 (IDVS) 中提取数据并采用负二项式回归方法，我们检查了六个自我域、四个家庭域、一个学校/工作域和一个对等域测量对 IPV 的影响。

结果

尽管与女性相比，男性报告的所有五个生活领域的频率都更高，但女性与 IPV 显着相关的生活领域变量的数量大于男性的数量。此外，男性和女性的生活领域变量对 IPV 的影响是不同的，同伴变量（犯罪同伴）对男性的 IPV 影响最大，而自我领域（愤怒问题）对女性的 IPV 影响最大.

结论

Agnew 的理论非常适合评估 IPV 的性别差异。