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Mental health problems are often responsible for the lack of family support among incarcerated individuals. In the case of veterans, family cohesion might have been already eroded by lengthy separations due to active duty training sessions and deployments. Drawing upon Conservation of Resources Theory, we assume that all inmates tend to value their ties with children and other family members. However, support from family members and children tend to vary across different groups (by gender, race, mental health status and type of criminal history).We hypothesize that incarcerated fathers who are veterans receive less emotional support (through visitations, mail, and telephone calls) and economic support from family members than incarcerated fathers who are not veterans. Consequently, we also hypothesize that fathers that are veterans have lower expectations about going back to their own families after incarceration than their non-veteran counterpart. We use multivariate statistical analyses of national samples from the 2004 Surveys of Federal and State Inmates of US Correctional Facilities (Bureau of Justice Statistics). ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In spite of antifeminists' efforts to show that men and women can be equally abusive in intimate contexts, research evidence suggests that women are still more likely than men to be victimized by intimate partners. However, with the introduction of mandatory and dual arrest policies, women's incarceration rates have steadily increased in the last decade. This is a problem of great concern because women are most often responsible for their children. This exploratory work on female and male inmates incarcerated for domestic violence investigates the trends in incarceration rates in US local jails and prisons 1980-2005. Multivariate statistical analysis will assess whether demographic characteristics and personal experiences of domestic violence offenders have changed over time in the past 25 years and whether these changes vary by gender. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There large body of research on intimate partner abuse but the literature on precursors to males' abusive/violent behaviors against female intimate partners is rare and presents conflicting results. This paper explores whether demographics (such as race, SES and age), personal/individual factors - such as intellectual competence, antisocial behavior and sexual conduct (measured at ages 13 to 15) and family factors - such as, physical punishment and bonding with one's parents/caretakers (measured at ages 13-15) influence males' abusive behavior against an intimate partner during adulthood (ages 23-25). Participants were 506 boys in the oldest sample of the Pittsburgh Youth Study, an ongoing longitudinal study consisting of young males from the public schools of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). The results show that, while a low SES is the main predictor of abusive behaviors among white males, physical punishment during adolescence and a young age at entering the romantic relationship best predicted non-white males' abusive behaviors against intimate partners in adulthood. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]