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Lally, William; DeMaris, Alfred – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
This study tests two hypotheses regarding factors affecting arrest of the perpetrator in domestic violence incidents. Black's relational-distance thesis is that the probability of arrest increases with increasing relational distance between perpetrator and victim. Klinger's leniency principle suggests that the probability of arrest is lower for…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Probability, Victims of Crime, Intimacy
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DeMaris, Alfred; Sanchez, Laura A.; Krivickas, Kristi – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
This study investigated differences in the trajectory of marital satisfaction in the first 7 years between couples in covenant versus standard marriages. The authors analyzed data on 707 Louisiana marriages from the Marriage Matters Panel Survey of Newlywed Couples, 1998-2004, using multivariate longitudinal growth modeling. When the sample was…
Descriptors: Risk, Preschool Children, Marriage, Marital Satisfaction
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LeRoy, Michelle; Mahoney, Annette; Pargament, Kenneth I.; DeMaris, Alfred – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study of 164 married couples examined longitudinal links between parents' perceptions of coparenting support and undermining by spouse at 6 months postpartum and infant behaviour problems at the age of 12 months after controlling for marital quality, individual parenting, and infant temperament. Multiple methods (i.e. parent reports and…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Behavior Problems, Parents, Mothers