Domestic Violence , N . A . Jackson . New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group . CONFLICT TACTICS SCALES

The Conllict Tactics Scales (CTS) are the most widely used instrument for identifying domestic violence. There are two main versions of tlie CTS: the CTS2 (Straus, Hamby. Boney-McCoy. and Sugarman 1996) is the version measuring violence against a partner in a dating or marital relationship. The CTS2 has scales to nieas~ire victiinizatioii and perpetration of thi-ee lactics that are onen used in conflicts between par-tners: physical assault, psychological aggression; and negotiation; and scales to measure injury and sexual coercion of and by a pal-tnei-. The CTSPC is the version of the CTS (Stl-aus, Hainby, Finkelhor. Moore. and Ruuyan 1998; Straus and Hainhy 1997) for measuring malti-eatment of a child by parents. The CTSPC has scales to measure physical assault (with subscales for corporal punishn~ent and physical abuse). pspchological aggression, and use of nonviolent discipline techniques. There are also suppleilientary questions on neglect; sexual abuse. and discipline in the past week. In this article. "CTS" will be used when tlie sentence applies to all versions of the instrument. and CTS2 and CTSPC will be used to refer to those specific versions. Both tlie CTS2 arid the CTSPC have versions for child respondents and for adult recall of tactics used between their parents (Straus website, 2006). The CTS2 has been translated into many languages. Both versions of the CTS can be obtained from Western Psychological Services.