Características de los hombres que maltratan a sus parejas

Abstract

«Characterizing intimate partner male batterers». Gender violence is one of the most serious problems of today’s society. Th is paper analyzes the characteristics of men who are violent to their partner in a sample of 786 women victims of such violence. Great variability was found in the description of the violent partner and, although the majority of abusers proved violent only with their partner, some of them also assaulted on other people. A quarter of them proved violent to animals as well and, although more than a half had never had legal problems, some had criminal records. It was concluded that, despite being a heterogeneous group, most of the men who abuse their partners are violent only them, which indicates that such violence can be a form of domination or control over women.