Michael P. Johnson
Born
Michael Paul Johnson

(1942-12-20) December 20, 1942 (age 81)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
ThesisPower relations and processes of person perception (1974)
Academic work
InstitutionsThe Pennsylvania State University
Main interestsDomestic violence
Notable worksA Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence
Notable ideasJohnson's Typology
Websitehttps://sites.psu.edu/feministmpj/welcome

Michael Paul Johnson (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State, where he taught sociology and women’s studies for over thirty years and was designated an Alumni Teaching Fellow, Penn State’s highest teaching award. He is an internationally recognized expert on domestic violence, invited to speak at conferences and universities throughout the United States and around the world.

His research focuses on the implications of differentiating among types of violence in intimate relationships, and he has consulted regularly with community organizations and government agencies regarding domestic violence policy and practice. He is widely published in scholarly journals, and his major work on domestic violence is presented in A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2008). Although he retired from Penn State in 2005 and from consulting in 2015, he still writes occasionally when opportunity knocks.

Education

Johnson obtained his BA degree in sociology from Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois) (1965),[1] his MA in sociology from the University of Iowa (1969),[2] and his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan (1974).[3]

PAIR project

In 1981 a long-term study of courtship and marriage of 168 couples was implemented by Ted Huston.[4] The project began at Penn State and was intended to last through the first two and a half years of marriage, but it was extended and extra waves of data were collected. In 1985 the project transferred to the University of Texas at Austin and a follow-up set of interviews with the participants took place in 1991.[5] Johnson has been a collaborator on the PAIR project since its early days, with a particular interest in 'conceptions of commitment'.[6]

Johnson's typology

External videos
Lecture by Michael P. Johnson
video icon Types of Domestic Violence: Research Evidence via YouTube[7]

Johnson argues that there are four major types of intimate partner violence,[8][9] a finding supported by some[10] but rejected by others.[11] The types of violence identified by Johnson are:[10]

  1. Situational couple violence
  2. Intimate terrorism[12]
  3. Violent resistance
  4. Mutual violent control: Johnson describes this as a couple who "could be viewed as two intimate terrorists battling for control".

View on feminism

Johnson describes his definition of feminism as:[13][14]

You're a feminist if you believe that

(1) men are privileged relative to women,
(2) that's not right, and
(3) you're going to do something about it, even if it's only in your personal life.

Personal life

Johnson is retired and living in the foothills of the Appalachians with his partner Maureen; he also has two children (Jennifer and Bryan) and a grandchild (Michael).[15]

Selected bibliography

Book

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Michael P. (August 2015). "Michael P. Johnson". psu.edu. Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  2. ^ Johnson, Michael P. (1969). Courtship and commitment: a study of cohabitation on a university campus (MA thesis). University of Iowa. OCLC 64678496.
  3. ^ Johnson, Michael P. (1974). Power relations and processes of person perception (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. OCLC 68283273.
  4. ^ "Welcome to the PAIR project". utexas.edu. University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 29 October 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  5. ^ "A biographical sketch of the PAIR project". utexas.edu. University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. ^ Johnson, Michael P. "Michael P. Johnson". utexas.edu. University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 23 October 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  7. ^ Terje Knutheim (konferanseleder/conference leader) and Michael P. Johnson (speaker) (September 2012). Types of Domestic Violence: Research Evidence (Video). Norway: forebygging.no via YouTube. Retrieved 10 January 2016. 1:09:09 Presented at Third Nordic Conference on Barnet og Rusen. Sandefjord, Norway.
  8. ^ "Johnson's IPV Typology". intimatepartnerviolence.150m.com. Intimate Partner Violence ...toward a fuller understanding of male and homosexual victims. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  9. ^ Johnson, Michael P. (November 2006). "Conflict and control: gender symmetry and asymmetry in domestic violence". Violence Against Women. 12 (11): 1003–1018. doi:10.1177/1077801206293328. PMID 17043363. S2CID 23410674. PDF
  10. ^ a b Nicolson, Paula (2010), "What is domestic abuse?", in Nicolson, Paula (ed.), Domestic violence and psychology: a critical perspective, London New York: Taylor & Francis, p. 40, ISBN 9781136698613
  11. ^ Bates, Elizabeth A.; Graham-Kevan, Nicola; Archer, John (January 2014). "Testing predictions from the male control theory of men's partner violence" (PDF). Aggressive Behavior. 40 (1): 42–55. doi:10.1002/ab.21499. PMID 23878077. S2CID 16532009.
  12. ^ Johnson, Michael P.; Ferraro, Kathleen J. (November 2000). "Research on domestic violence in the 1990s: making distinctions". Journal of Marriage and Family. 62 (4): 948–963. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00948.x. JSTOR 1566718.
  13. ^ Johnson, Michael P. "We haven't reached post-feminism yet" (PDF). Feminist Perspectives. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 13, 2014.
  14. ^ "Michael P. Johnson: welcome". psu.edu. Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  15. ^ "Michael P. Johnson: personal". psu.edu. Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.

External links

Further reading

Interview
Johnson's Typology
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