Over a decade later, what has changed? Updating the partner abuse state of knowledge articles and online database

Bates, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8694-8078 and Hamel, John (2024) Over a decade later, what has changed? Updating the partner abuse state of knowledge articles and online database. Partner Abuse . Item availability may be restricted.

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Abstract

As identified in the introduction to the first Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) issue (Hamel et al., 2012), the 1970s were a critical period in the development of our understanding about intimate partner violence (IPV) and its effects on victims and their families. This was a time when IPV was still considered a private matter, rather than the significant social and family problem that it is, but when, thankfully, there emerged the first widespread accounts of battered women, much of this via personal testimony, as well as the more methodologically-sophisticated, larger scale community-based and national surveys on the prevalence and severity of family violence in the home. Now, more than 50 years later, the wealth of data collected about IPV has generated a great deal of insight into its prevalence, gender differences, risk factors, motivation, and consequences, including he differences that exist across racial and ethnic groups as well as the LGBTQ+ communities. However, despite the evidence we now have about the dynamics and complexities of IPV, this information is not always made available, and there remains much debate about how it ought to inform public policy and clinical practice. Indeed, despite there being hope that this is changing and that a “revolution is taking place in the field of domestic violence” (Hamel & Nicholls, 2007; p. xxxix), there remains a gap between the extant research and practice. The articles contained in the original PASK project, published between 2012 and 2013 in this journal, were was the culmination of over 2 years of work by 42 authors, whose 17 manuscripts covered all of the major topic areas in the field of domestic violence. It remains the largest published database of information about IPV, with a total of 2,647 manuscript pages and tables, available online at www.domesticviolenceresearch.org. As an open access resource, PASK is importantly accessible to those beyond academia, across a wide range of sectors, from victim advocates, mental health professionals and other treatment providers to law enforcement and policy-makers and interested others, both within the US and more widely (e.g., within the United Kingdom). The webpage appears in the top Google results when using the search term “domestic violence research.” Furthermore, a search on Google Scholar found the original PASK research manuscripts have been cited over 5,500 times with the systematic review of the risk factors of IPV by Capaldi et al. (2012) having been cited alone over 2,000 times. This valuable and important database of evidence has clearly had a significant and international impact. The aim of the current update is to report on findings published since 2012 on all the significant topic areas and systematically synthesise these with the previous PASK reviews, to provide a comprehensive account of the current state of knowledge of the IPV literature. The current issue presents the first 5 of the 20 total articles to be published in this volume of Partner Abuse.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Partner Abuse
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1946-6579
Departments:	Institute of Health > Psychology and Psychological Therapies
Additional Information:	Dr Elizabeth A. Bates, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Psychological Therapies, University of Cumbria, UK. John Hamel, Private Practice.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2024 10:09
Last Modified:	07 Jan 2025 10:45
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8541