Examining the role of firearm involvement in repeat intimate partner violence assaults

Table 4 Time to recurrent IPV events among perpetrators who used firearms during index assault

Police reported physical assaults
	Conditional gap-time frailty model		Conditional gap-time model
	Hazard ratio	Confidence interval	Hazard ratio	Confidence interval
Firearm use at index	2.68	0.83–8.63	2.87	1.79–4.60
Firearm involvement in past IPV	1.89	1.15–3.13	1.49	1.18–1.86
Firearm involvement in recidivism	1.02	0.69–1.52	1.08	0.77–1.52
N	886		886
Number of failures	540		540
Log likelihood	− 2390.75		− 2614.31
Wald χ²	197.01***		167.22***
I-likelihood	− 2588.70		–
Θ	1.23***		–
Likelihood ratio for Θ	447.11***		–

Firearm use is defined as firing shots or pistol whipping the victim. All models control for perpetrator characteristics including age, substance use, prior incarceration, history of non-IPV assaults, history of strangulation, violation of conditional release order, relationship type, economic abuse, prior IPV history, and arrest at index assault
*** denote p<0.001

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