Journal of Clinical Review & Case Reports(JCRC)

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  Victim Reversal Syndrome: A Behavioral Analysis of Why Victims of Domestic Abuse Become Abusers
  Author(s): Douglas H Ruben*
  
  Domestic abuse is often understood as a one-directional dynamic in which a perpetrator harms a victim. However, emerging evidence highlights a troubling cycle in which victims of abuse later become perpetrators in subsequent relationships. This paper examines the phenomenon of victim reversal of aggression (Victim Reversal Syndrome). This is where individuals, lacking healthy repertoires for conflict resolution, resort to familiar abusive behaviors that were reinforced in prior relationships. Drawing on behavioral and interbehavioral analyses, the paper explores susceptibility factors, predictors of intergenerational victim-to-abuser transmission, and the normalization of abuse within partner milieus. Previous research demonstrated that reinforcement histories, skill deficits, rule-governed behaviors, emotional desensitization, rigid gender roles, patriarchal norms, modeling, stimulus.. Read More»
  

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