Alcohol Use in Nonmutual and Mutual Domestic Violence in the U.S. Army: 1998–2004

There is sometimes a distinction made between nonmutual domestic violence, in which one partner is the perpetrator and the other partner is the victim, and mutual domestic violence, in which both partners are (at times) perpetrator and victim. In this study, researchers explored associations between alcohol use and substantiated incidents of nonmutual and mutual domestic violence between enlisted Soldiers and their spouses from 1998 to 2004 (n = 25,526 victims). Alcohol was present in 23% of the nonmutual and 21% of the mutual abuse incidents.