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12 J. Child Custody 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/wjcc12 and id is 1 raw text is: journal of Child Custody, 12:1-3, 2015 I)Routledge Copyright () Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Taylor&FrancisGroup ISSN: 1537-9418 print/1537-940X online DOI: 10.1080/15379418.2015.1039918 Introduction to the Special Issue on Attitudes and Current Research Concerning Intimate Partner Violence: Issues for Child Custody JESSICA E. LAMBERT Department ofPsychology and Child Development, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, California The classification of domestic abuse in to distinct types has, unfortunately, become a divisive issue in the field of family violence and the practice of child custody evaluations. Typologies for the abusive partner (Holtzworth- Munroe & Meehan, 2004; Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart, 1994; Jacobson & Gottman, 1998) and for the dynamic between partners have been proposed (Johnson, 1995; Johnson & Leone, 2005). Perhaps the most well-known and controversial model of couple violence was proposed by Johnson (1995, 2008) and distinguishes between situations where one partner is truly abusive and situations where partners have poor conflict resolution skills and both resort to physical violence on occasion. Johnson's model of couple violence was proposed to represent a rappro- chement of different sides on the domestic violence debate-the feminist tradition and the systemic conceptualizations of family violence (Johnson & Leone, 2005). As described in Meier (this issue) and Gulliver and Fanslow (this issue), Johnson (1995) argued that violent couples can be distinguished largely by the degree to which one partner utilizes coercive control tactics in the relationship. Under this assumption, there are some couples where one partner, typically the male in heterosexual relationships, is the per- petrator of violence characterized by efforts to control and dominate his partner. Such relationships were labeled intimate terrorism (Johnson & Leone, 2005) and were said to be consistent with dynamics reported by most domestic violence victims in shelters. In contrast, physical aggression in the absence of coercive control was labeled common couple violence and later situational violence (Johnson & Leone). Situational violence Address correspondence to Jessica E. Lambert, Department of Psychology and Child Development, California State University Stanislaus, 1 University Circle, Turlock, CA 95382. E-mail: jlambert@csustan.edu