Michael P. Johnson Explained

Michael P. Johnson
Birth Name:Michael Paul Johnson
Birth Date:20 December 1942
Workplaces:The Pennsylvania State University
Alma Mater:University of Michigan
Thesis Title:Power relations and processes of person perception
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68283273
Thesis Year:1974
Main Interests:Domestic violence
Principal Ideas:Johnson's Typology
Major Works:A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence
Website:https://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

Johnson argues that there are four major types of intimate partner violence,[7] [8] a finding supported by some but rejected by others.[9] The types of violence identified by Johnson are:

  1. Situational couple violence
  2. Intimate terrorism[10]
  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:[11] [12]

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).[13]

Selected bibliography

Book

Journal articles

Further reading

Interview
Johnson's Typology

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Johnson . Michael P. . Michael P. Johnson . psu.edu . . August 2015 . 10 January 2016 .
  2. MA . Johnson . Michael P. . 1969 . Courtship and commitment: a study of cohabitation on a university campus . . 64678496.
  3. PhD . Johnson . Michael P. . 1974 . Power relations and processes of person perception . . 68283273.
  4. Web site: Welcome to the PAIR project . https://web.archive.org/web/20041029041848/http://www.utexas.edu/research/pair/ourresearch/index.html . 29 October 2004 . utexas.edu . . 10 January 2016 .
  5. Web site: A biographical sketch of the PAIR project . https://web.archive.org/web/20041024102000/http://www.utexas.edu/research/pair/history/biograph.html . 24 October 2004 . utexas.edu . . 10 January 2016 .
  6. Web site: Johnson . Michael P. . Michael P. Johnson . https://web.archive.org/web/20041023195153/http://www.utexas.edu/research/pair/mike.htm . 23 October 2004 . utexas.edu . . 10 January 2016.
  7. Web site: Johnson's IPV Typology . https://web.archive.org/web/20160201184533/http://intimatepartnerviolence.150m.com/typology.html . 1 February 2016 . 15 June 2019 . intimatepartnerviolence.150m.com . Intimate Partner Violence ...toward a fuller understanding of male and homosexual victims.
  8. Johnson . Michael P. . Conflict and control: gender symmetry and asymmetry in domestic violence . . 12 . 11 . 1003–1018 . 10.1177/1077801206293328 . 17043363 . November 2006. 23410674 . PDF
  9. Bates . Elizabeth A. . Graham-Kevan . Nicola . Archer . John . Testing predictions from the male control theory of men's partner violence . . 40 . 1 . 42–55 . 10.1002/ab.21499 . 23878077 . January 2014 . 16532009 .
  10. Johnson . Michael P. . Ferraro . Kathleen J. . Research on domestic violence in the 1990s: making distinctions . . 62 . 4 . 948–963 . 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00948.x . 1566718 . November 2000.
  11. News: Johnson . Michael P. . We haven't reached post-feminism yet . Feminist Perspectives . 9 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140713002706/http://personal.psu.edu/mpj/2010%20building%20partnerships.pdf . July 13, 2014.
  12. Web site: Michael P. Johnson: welcome . psu.edu . . 10 January 2016.
  13. Web site: Michael P. Johnson: personal . psu.edu . . 10 January 2016.

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