Factors Predicting Family Violence Revictimization Among Army Families With Child Maltreatment

• Published in: Child maltreatment Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 423 - 433
• Main Authors: Kaye, Miranda P., Aronson, Keith R., Perkins, Daniel F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2022; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Abused children; Advocacy; Armed forces; Child abuse & neglect; Children; Community; Domestic violence; Families & family life; Housing; Intervention; Neighborhoods; Prevention programs; Protective factors; Revictimization; Risk factors; child maltreatment; risk factors; military families; revictimization; family violence
• ISSN: 1077-5595; 1552-6119
• DOI: 10.1177/10775595211008997

The Army Family Advocacy Program (Army FAP) strives to prevent family violence and intervene to reduce the deleterious effects of exposure to family violence. This paper examines the individual, family, community, and treatment factors associated with family violence revictimization. Case files of 134 families with substantiated child maltreatment and associated Army FAP interventions that closed in 2013 were coded across risk and protective factors and intervention characteristics and were matched to Army Central Registry files to identify revictimization rates through 2017. Revictimization, experienced by 23% of families, was predicted by community risk and reduced by intervention dose. With the high rates of relocations, housing or neighborhood issues, and the isolation military families experience and the relationship of these concerns to repeated family violence, identifying the impact of community risk is particularly important. Similarly, research that elucidates the effective treatment components is needed.