Neighborhood characteristics and violence behind closed doors: The spatial overlap of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 6; p. e0198684
• Main Authors: Gracia, Enrique, López-Quílez, Antonio, Marco, Miriam, Lila, Marisol
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 07.06.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Aggression; Alcohol; Analysis; Bayesian analysis; Census; Censuses; Child; Child abuse; Child abuse & neglect; Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data; Children; Communities; Community research; Criminal investigations; Domestic violence; Earth Sciences; Economic Status - statistics & numerical data; Education; Educational Status; Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data; Families & family life; Female; Health risk assessment; Higher education; Humans; Immigrants; Intimate partner violence; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Minority groups; Modelling; Neighborhoods; People and Places; Public health; Research and Analysis Methods; Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data; Residential areas; Risk; Risk Factors; Social psychology; Social Sciences; Spain; Spatial analysis; Spatial distribution; Spouse Abuse - statistics & numerical data; Stability; Studies; Trauma; Violence; Spain; United States > US; Chicago Illinois

In this study, we analyze first whether there is a common spatial distribution of child maltreatment (CM) and intimate partner violence (IPV), and second, whether the risks of CM and IPV are influenced by the same neighborhood characteristics, and if these risks spatially overlap. To this end we use...