School of Social Science and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2014 Apr;15(2):102-12. doi: 10.1177/1524838013511542. Epub 2013 Nov 10.
A significant proportion of reports of domestic violence against women involve multiple perpetrators. Although the number of perpetrators has been consistently identified as a measure of abuse severity, only a minority of studies of domestic violence examine the role of multiple offenders. Data on multi-perpetrator domestic violence (MDV) is frequently removed from analysis in domestic violence studies, or multi-perpetrator incidents are treated as single-perpetrator incidents. However, the available research links MDV to negative mental and physical health outcomes, intimate partner homicide, homelessness among women, and severe mental illness and suicidality. This article reviews the available prevalence data on MDV and draws together research on the contexts in which MDV takes place. It highlights two groups that are particularly vulnerable to MDV: (1) girls and women partnered to members of gangs and organized crime groups and (2) girls and women in some ethnic minority communities. While discussions of honor in relation to domestic violence are often racialized in Western media, this article highlights the cross-cultural role of masculine honor in collective violence against women in the working class and impoverished communities of majority cultures as well as in migrant and ethnic minority communities. It is clear that such complex forms of violence present a range of challenges for intervention and treatment and the article emphasizes the need for specialized and coordinated modes of investigation, support, and care.
相当一部分针对妇女的家庭暴力报告涉及多名施害者。尽管加害人数一直被认为是衡量虐待严重程度的一个指标，但在针对家庭暴力的少数研究中，只有少数研究考察了多名犯罪者的作用。关于多施害者家庭暴力（MDV）的数据经常从家庭暴力研究的分析中删除，或者多施害者事件被视为单一施害者事件。然而，现有研究将 MDV 与负面的身心健康结果、亲密伴侣杀人、妇女无家可归以及严重精神疾病和自杀倾向联系起来。本文综述了关于 MDV 的现有流行数据，并汇集了关于 MDV 发生背景的研究。它强调了两个特别容易受到 MDV 影响的群体：（1）与帮派和有组织犯罪集团成员有关系的女孩和妇女；（2）某些少数族裔社区的女孩和妇女。虽然关于与家庭暴力有关的荣誉的讨论在西方媒体中经常被种族化，但本文强调了男性荣誉在集体暴力侵害妇女方面的跨文化作用，这些暴力行为发生在工人阶级和贫困社区以及移民和少数民族社区。显然，这种复杂形式的暴力对干预和治疗提出了一系列挑战，文章强调需要专门和协调的调查、支持和护理模式。
