Contact: Sally Schwader, Phone 541-485-2711
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – OSLC Senior Scientist Dr. Deborah Capaldi will present findings from the long term Oregon Youth Study on the relationship between intimate partner violence and crime as an invited speaker for the Queen’s University Distinguished Lecture Series on February 9, 2007. The Oregon Youth Study of 206 fourth grade boys from randomly selected lower-income neighborhoods in the Eugene-Springfield area began in 1983, and has expanded over the years to include studies of the siblings, the intimate partners, and the children of the original participants. Dr. Capaldi’s address, entitled “Intimate Partner Violence and Crime: Women’s Influence on Men’s Behavior”, will report on patterns of aggression to partner in young men and women and their mutual influences across time. Recent work will be discussed in which Dr. Capaldi and her team investigated the influence of the behavior of men’s female partners on men’s onset of crime as well as persistence in crime during the early adult period. Her findings suggest that girls and women should be included in preventive efforts targeting decreases in criminal behavior and intimate partner violence by men.