Table 3

Proposed Typology of Male IPH Perpetrators

	Mentally Ill	Undercontrolled/Dysregulated	Chronic Batterer	Overcontrolled/Catathymic
Demographics	Older than most IPH perpetrators	Mid to late 30s	Younger than most IPH perpetrators	Mid to late 30s
Preoffense functioning	Functioning declines as chronicity of mental illness increases	Variable	Variable	High level of outward functioning
Psychopathology	History of mental illness; psychotic or depressed at time of offense	Mood and anxiety diagnoses possible	Minimal Axis I psychopathology	Minimal Axis I psychopathology
Personality disorder	No Axis II diagnoses likely	Borderline personality	Antisocial, sadistic, and narcissistic personality	Dependent and schizoid personality
Previous intimate partner violence	Unlikely	Affective and episodic	Instrumental, persistent, and severe	Unlikely; catathymic when present
Previous general violence	Moderately likely	Moderately likely	Highly likely	Less likely
Substance abuse	Less likely	Highly likely	Highly likely	Unlikely
Suicide	Less likely with psychosis than depression	Moderately likely	Less likely; risk increases when abandonment present	Moderately likely
Associated deaths	Additional family members	Less likely; family or victim's current partner when occurs	Unlikely to kill additional family members	Unlikely
Associated deaths	Additional family members	Less likely; family or victim's current partner when occurs	Unlikely to kill additional family members	Other family members when occurs
			Victim's new partner most likely victim
Abandonment	Less likely	Likely	Likely	Less likely; engulfment possible
Jealousy/envy	Unlikely	Jealousy	Envy or jealousy	Envy