Reducing domestic violence revictimization - The effects of individual andcontextual factors and type of legal intervention

This article examines the role of individual and contextual factors and leg al interventions in reducing time to domestic violence revictimization. Dra wing on current theory and research, hypotheses are deduced about the effec ts of these factors. Cox regression and survival analyses are employed to t est the hypotheses using court, police, and census data from an urban juris diction in Texas. Prior drug use, race/ethnicity, and community-level incom e were associated with time to revictimization. However, there was little e vidence either of interactive effects between race/ethnicity and community- level income or of differential effects of each of three types of legal int erventions. Implications for theory, research, and domestic violence interv entions are discussed.