In Margolin and Gordis’s research, they trying to examine the impact of three types of violence that has on children which are the child maltreatment, community violence and interparental violence. They believed that children who experienced these types of violence will have a direct relationship to their delinquent behavior during adulthood or psychological impact in later on of their life. Researcher stated that data among these three types of violence can be collected from legal and social services agencies or directly from parent’s reports through community surveys. Since there is different way in collecting data on these issues, the definition of children witnessed violence can be different which can vary the study result. This is because children who witnessed interparental violence will not consider as a crime victim. Most of the data that are estimated were all on violence that happened …show more content…
witness physical aggression between their parents are more than 10 million each year. Fantuzzo and his colleagues studied the frequency to which children were directly involved in a reported family violence. They collected the data from police officers and female victims of misdemeanor domestic violence in five U.S. cities. In the result of the study, they found that in “19.8% of households in which domestic violence occurred, an issue pertaining to children was identified as being an influence in the abuse episode; in 11–12% of cases, a child placed the call to police, and in 6–7% of cases, a child was physically abused during the domestic violence episode” (Margolin & Gordis, 2000, p.447). Furthermore, data that compared to those who never had a documented history of witnessing interparental violence o those who had a documented history of witnessing interparental violence are at two times greater risk to be involved in delinquent behavior or commit a violent