Examining Women’s Intimate Partner Violence: A Utah Example

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has emerged as one of the United States ’ most salient social problems. While historically this problem has been framed as men’s violence towards women, more recently, scholars have begun to examine the nature of women’s violence towards men. This paper summarizes the literature related to women’s violence in interpersonal relationships and then presents findings from a study of rural couples in treatment for domestic violence. The findings and conclusions support the idea that females who commit IPV differ from male IPV offenders in significant ways