Characteristics of Household Addresses That Repeatedly Contact 911 to Report Intimate Partner Violence

Houry, Debra; Fayard, Gregory; Thorn, Jennifer; Heron, Sheryl; Kellermann, Arthur L.

doi:10.1197/j.aem.2003.11.019

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“…For example, it is possible that police underestimated the violence that occurred. Second, our use of police data likely overrepresented severe abuse cases (Bonomi, Holt, et al, 2006;Duterte et al, 2008;Houry et al, 2004). Third, it is possible we missed subsequent intimate partner violence not reported to police; for example, we could not determine whether women migrated differentially out of neighborhood areas, which may have influenced data capture rates.…”

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Intimate Partner Violence and Neighborhood Income

Bonomi

Trabert

Anderson

et al. 2014

Violence Against Women

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This investigation used a longitudinal design to examine the relationship between neighborhood-level income, individual-level predictors, and police-reported intimate partner violence in 5,994 urban couples followed over 2 years. At the baseline abuse incident, intimate partner violence rates were highest in the poorest neighborhoods (13.8 per 1,000 women in the lowest income quartile, followed by 12.1, 8.2, and 5.0 in the respective higher income quartiles). However, in the longitudinal analysis, weapon use at the baseline abuse event was a much stronger predictor of repeat abuse (incident rate ratios ranging from 1.72 for physical abuse to 1.83 for non-physical abuse) than neighborhood income.

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confidence: 99%

Intimate Partner Violence and Neighborhood Income

Bonomi

Trabert

Anderson

et al. 2014

Violence Against Women

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“…The severity of police-reported IPV is rarely reported beyond self-report survey data. Houry et al (2004), using 911 phone logs, used key phrases corresponding to each CTS score to identify IPV cases and score the severity of the incidents. Although that study revealed a preponderance (87%) of severe IPV, the specific charges against the perpetrator were not reported.…”

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“…For example, in a study of IPV in the state courts of 16 large urban counties, Smith and Farole (2009) found that 81% of male perpetrators were charged with simple assault, a misdemeanor. A few studies supplementing qualitative with quantitative data have demonstrated a substantial level of severe IPV in police-reported incidents (Houry et al, 2004; Thomas et al, 2010); at least one (Thomas et al, 2010) found police charges and actual behaviors encountered in incidents to be discordant, with the majority of incidents classified as severe physical violence using narrative text whereas the majority of charges were simple assault.…”

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Police-Reported Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Lipsky

Cristofalo

Reed

et al. 2012

J Interpers Violence

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The objectives of this study were to examine racial and ethnic disparities in perpetrator and incident characteristics and discrepancies between police charges and reported perpetrator behaviors in police-reported intimate partner violence (IPV). This cross-sectional study used standardized police data and victim narratives of IPV incidents reported to the police in Dallas, Texas in 2004. The sample included non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic male perpetrators who were residents of Dallas (N = 4470). Offense charges were prioritized in descending order: sexual assault, aggravated assault, simple assault, kidnapping, robbery, and intimidation. Textual data from the victim narratives were coded, based on the revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS), and categorized in descending order of priority: sexual (severe, minor), physical (severe, minor), and psychological (severe, minor) assault. Perpetrators were more likely to be Black and Hispanic. Perpetrator and incident characteristics varied significantly by race/ethnicity, particularly age, age difference between partners, marital status, injury, and interracial relationships. Qualitative data revealed that greater proportions of Black and Hispanic men perpetrated severe physical, but not sexual violence, compared with White men. The greatest disparity between CTS categories and police charges occurred among those cases identified by the CTS as severe physical IPV; 84% were charged with simple assault. Significant differences by race/ethnicity were found only for simple assault charges, which were coded as severe physical as opposed to minor physical IPV more often among Black (69% and 31%) compared with White (62% and 38%) men. The disparities revealed in this study highlight the need to enhance primary and secondary prevention efforts within Black and Hispanic communities and to increase linkages between police, community, and public health organizations.

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“…In some locales, the numbers may be so high as to comprise more than one half of all calls for service (Klein 2009). Given that so many IPV victims seek help from the police (Friday et al 2006;Hutchison and Hirschel 1998), and that many do so repeatedly (Friday et al 2006;Houry et al 2004), it is important that agencies focus and dedicate as much time and resources to IPV as they do to other major crimes (Klein 2009). Similar to findings from previous research and what experienced police officers have learned, we found that a majority of IPV incidents occurred between the evening and early morning hours (Catalano 2006;Johnson 2007), on weekends (Johnson 2007;Shepherd 1990), and on major American holidays (Rotten and Frey 1985).…”

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Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance

Joshi

Sorenson

2010

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Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 oppositesex intimate partner violence calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents were considered to be a restraining order violation although many orders were active in the city at the time. The data appeared to be of good quality and just a few changes in recording procedures would increase Compstat's usefulness for public health in U.S. cities.

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Characteristics of Household Addresses That Repeatedly Contact 911 to Report Intimate Partner Violence

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Intimate Partner Violence and Neighborhood Income

Intimate Partner Violence and Neighborhood Income

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Police-Reported Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance

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