Abstract
Despite the common occurrence of sexual violence in intimate partner violence (IPV) and its association with increased risk of intimate partner homicide, intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is often overlooked in the literature. As a result, little is known about risk factors that may be unique to IPSV perpetrators. The present study utilizes a police-reported sample to compare the risk/need profiles of 36 IPSV and 36 IPV perpetrators by creating theoretically meaningful risk composites as proxies for a number of the central eight risk/need areas posited by Andrews and Bonta (2010, https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018362). Results indicate that the risk/need profiles of the IPSV group are more severe than the IPV group, with higher scores in measures of substance abuse, relationship instability, sexual aggression, and mental health concerns. Potential implications for IPSV assessment and intervention at the level of policing and correctional programming are discussed, including the need for higher intensity treatments and the treatment of non-criminogenic needs.
Highlights
Less is known about intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV), which has risen by 25% between 2011 and 2016 in Canada (Keighley, 2017)
IPSV may be overlooked partly because it lies at the intersection of intimate partner vio‐ lence (IPV) and sexual violence, with many instances subsumed into one category of research or the other
Results indicated that IPSV perpetrators have higher crimino‐ genic needs overall than the IPV perpetrator group
Summary
Less is known about intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV), which has risen by 25% between 2011 and 2016 in Canada (Keighley, 2017) Such increases are notable given that the rate of sexual assaults in general have decreased across Canada by 9%. Other researchers found that individuals who had faced IPSV victimization experienced more physical trauma (Stermac et al, 2006) and more incidents of violence (Mahoney, 1999) when compared to those who have been sexually abused by non-partners. In addition to the severity of violence, other research has shown that those who perpetrated IPV and sexually abused their partners were more likely to use coercive methods than those who were not sexually violent (Bergen & Bukovec, 2006). When interventions are considered, it is likely that individuals are placed into either an IPV treatment program or a sexual offending treatment program
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