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The present study analyses dynamics of intimate partner violence from the male point of view. Continuity or qualitative discontinuity between abusive behaviour and homicide and unity versus diversity of homicidal behaviour will be discussed in a contextualized approach considering dynamics of couple relationship and several male features. This study has a quantitative and qualitative methodology using several scales to assess personality, attachment to parents and to romantic partner and a semi-structured interview specially conceived for this research. Some of the main dimensions explored through male narratives were courtship, frequency and severity of physical and psychological violence during couple relationship, early childhood experiences, attachment to female partner, social relationships with others than family and description of abusive and homicidal behaviour. Our participants are male adults inmates condemned for violence or homicide against their female partner: 15 men arrested for homicide or attempted homicide of partner and 6 men arrested for violence against partner. A content analysis from the interviews transcripts was conducted in order to explore dimensions presented above and to identify themes associated to abusive and homicidal acts. A sequential analysis was conducted to assess male conceptualization of violent or homicidal episodes. Three trajectories emerge from those analyses. One of them, a trajectory of abusive behavior that usually does not end in homicide and two other trajectories conducting to homicide. Those trajectories will be discussed considering the dimensions explored. Major implications for intervention will be debated.
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Intimate partner violence Intimate partner homicide Dynamics of intimate partner violence Trajectories of violence and homicide Male narratives of violence
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Pereira, Paula Sismeiro (2014). Trajectories of intimate partner violence: from psychological and physical abuse to homicide. In 12th Global Conference on Violence: Probing the Boundaries. Lisboa
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Inter-Disciplinary.net