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Purpose <p>The current study is the first known investigation of how co-offending and victim-offender relationships impact the severity of child physical and sexual abuse while controlling for salient offense, offender, and victim characteristics. Given existing evidence that violence committed by multiple perpetrators is generally more severe than solo offenses, co-perpetrated physical and sexual abuse—especially when involving parent offenders (i.e., “dual-parent child abuse”)—is hypothesized to be significantly more injurious than solo-perpetrated abuse.</p> Method <p>Using incident-level data from the 2018 National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), multivariate logistic regression models estimated the independent and joint effects of co-offending and the victim-offender relationship on the risk of serious or lethal injury in incidents of child physical and sexual abuse.</p> Results <p>The models revealed that co-offending and the victim-offender relationship play unique roles in facilitating child abuse outcomes, and that the involvement of two parent perpetrators has a particularly exacerbating effect on victim injury in physical abuse incidents.</p> Conclusion <p>Overall, the findings suggest that dual-parent child abuse, a prevalent yet understudied phenomenon, carries distinctly greater risks for severe violence and victim injury compared to other forms of child maltreatment (e.g., neglect, emotional abuse).</p>

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Parents as Co-Perpetrators: Exploring Dual-Parent Child Abuse as a Distinct Form of Violence

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    2025年7月22日

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  • Sarah R. Wouters

摘要

Purpose

The current study is the first known investigation of how co-offending and victim-offender relationships impact the severity of child physical and sexual abuse while controlling for salient offense, offender, and victim characteristics. Given existing evidence that violence committed by multiple perpetrators is generally more severe than solo offenses, co-perpetrated physical and sexual abuse—especially when involving parent offenders (i.e., “dual-parent child abuse”)—is hypothesized to be significantly more injurious than solo-perpetrated abuse.

Method

Using incident-level data from the 2018 National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), multivariate logistic regression models estimated the independent and joint effects of co-offending and the victim-offender relationship on the risk of serious or lethal injury in incidents of child physical and sexual abuse.

Results

The models revealed that co-offending and the victim-offender relationship play unique roles in facilitating child abuse outcomes, and that the involvement of two parent perpetrators has a particularly exacerbating effect on victim injury in physical abuse incidents.

Conclusion

Overall, the findings suggest that dual-parent child abuse, a prevalent yet understudied phenomenon, carries distinctly greater risks for severe violence and victim injury compared to other forms of child maltreatment (e.g., neglect, emotional abuse).