Exceptionally high rates of partner violence perpetration are evident among men returning from prison. Two bodies of scholarship, one on family stress and another on exposure to state violence, each suggest that criminal legal system exposure could promote partner violence perpetration via changes in men's behavioral health and interpersonal approach and in couples' conflict dynamics. Such relationships have not been tested in quantitative research. Structural equation models were fitted to longitudinal, couples-based survey data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering. Participants included men returning from a state prison term in five U.S. states (N = 1112) and their committed intimate or co-parenting partners (N = 1112). Models tested hypothesized pathways from three dimensions of criminal legal system exposure to later partner violence perpetration. In fitted models, men's childhood criminal legal system exposure predicts their post-prison partner violence perpetration via adult post-traumatic stress symptoms, reactivity, avoidance, and dysfunctional couple conflict dynamics. Men's cumulative criminal legal system exposure in adulthood predicts their post-prison partner violence perpetration via addiction and dysfunctional couple conflict. These initial results suggest that mass-scale incarceration could worsen partner violence via men's psychological and interpersonal adaptations to criminal legal system contact, particularly when such contact is sustained or occurs at a developmentally significant period in the life course.

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当国家暴力回家时：从刑事法律制度暴露到大规模监禁时期的亲密伴侣暴力。

从监狱返回的男性中，伴侣暴力犯罪率异常高。两个学术机构，一个关于家庭压力，另一个关于暴露于国家暴力，每一个都表明刑事法律制度暴露可以通过改变男性的行为健康和人际交往方式以及夫妻冲突动态来促进伴侣暴力犯罪。这种关系尚未在定量研究中得到检验。结构方程模型适用于来自关于监禁、养育和合作的多地点家庭研究的纵向、基于夫妻的调查数据。参与者包括从美国五个州的州监狱服刑归来的男性 (N = 1112) 和他们承诺的亲密或共同抚养伙伴 (N = 1112)。模型测试了从刑事法律制度暴露到后来的伴侣暴力犯罪的三个维度的假设路径。在拟合模型中，男性的童年刑事法律制度暴露通过成年创伤后应激症状、反应性、回避和功能失调的夫妻冲突动态来预测他们入狱后伴侣的暴力行为。男性在成年后累积的刑事法律制度暴露预示着他们在出狱后通过成瘾和功能失调的夫妻冲突实施伴侣暴力行为。这些初步结果表明，大规模监禁可能会通过男性对刑事法律制度接触的心理和人际适应来加剧伴侣暴力，尤其是当这种接触持续存在或发生在生命历程中具有重要发展意义的时期时。