Family Violence Statistics: Including Statistics on Strangers and Acquaintances

Durose, Matthew R.; Harlow, Caroline Wolf; Langan, Patrick A.; Motivans, Mark; Rantala, Ramona R.; Smith, Elliot H.; Constantin, Elizabeth

doi:10.1037/e412162005-001

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“…Although their effects on the lives of women and children-and its costs to the nation-are substantial, domestic abusers get lighter legal punishment than do others who assault. When non-family members assault women, 77% of them are sent to prison; when family members assault women, only 45% are incarcerated (Durose et al, 2005). Correction efforts with male batterers are largely unsuccessful, and most prevention efforts are aimed at changing the behavior of the victim, not the perpetrator (Durose et al, 2005;Gondolf, 2000;Jewkes, 2002;Puffet & Gavin, 2004).…”

Section: The Problem Of Domestic Violence and Why It Mattersmentioning

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“…When non-family members assault women, 77% of them are sent to prison; when family members assault women, only 45% are incarcerated (Durose et al, 2005). Correction efforts with male batterers are largely unsuccessful, and most prevention efforts are aimed at changing the behavior of the victim, not the perpetrator (Durose et al, 2005;Gondolf, 2000;Jewkes, 2002;Puffet & Gavin, 2004). Even when batterers are referred into antiviolence and anger management programs by the court, many drop out (Jewkes, 2002), reoffend within six months (Gondolf, 2000), and are rearrested on similar charges within two years (Puffett & Gavin, 2004).…”

Section: The Problem Of Domestic Violence and Why It Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Domestic Violence in Men's and Women's Magazines: Women Are Guilty of Choosing the Wrong Men, Men Are Not Guilty of Hitting Women

Nettleton

2011

Women's Studies in Communication

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Domestic Violence in Men's and Women's Magazines: Women Are Guilty of Choosing the Wrong Men, Men Are Not Guilty of Hitting Women

Nettleton

2011

Women's Studies in Communication

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“…Although some studies have shown that wives are just about as likely to batter their spouses (Steinmetz, 1977;Straus, Gelles, & Steinmetz, 1980), critics charge that those studies fail to control for women's actions taken in self-defense or retaliation (Dobash, Dobash, Wilson, & Daly, 1992). Instead, data collected from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) consistently show women as the victims in 85% of domestic violence incidents between intimate partners (Durose et al, 2005). The dramatic increase in female arrests for domestic violence seems problematic due to the fact that the majority of domestic violence is perpetrated by males.…”

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Sex Disparities in Arrest Outcomes for Domestic Violence

Hamilton

Worthen

2010

J Interpers Violence

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Domestic violence arrests have been historically focused on protecting women and children from abusive men. Arrest patterns continue to reflect this bias with more men arrested for domestic violence compared to women. Such potential gender variations in arrest patterns pave the way to the investigation of disparities by sex of the offender in domestic violence arrests. This study utilizes data from a quantitative dataset that includes responses by police officers who completed a specially mandated checklist after responding to a domestic dispute. The results showed that while females are arrested quite often in domestic disputes, there remains a significant difference in the arrest outcome whereby male suspects were more likely to be arrested than female suspects. Regression models further indicated differences based on sex and certain predictors of arrest, which supported sex-based rationales in arrests for domestic violence.

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“…Research shows that the severity of crime becomes a stronger determinant of crime -reporting behavior when including violent crimes (e.g., victim inju ries, repeat vict imization events, etc.) [38][39][40][41]35]. Tanton and Jones's study shows that victims of serious crimes have a higher propensity to report crimes to the police than victims of less serious crimes.…”

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The Impact of Prior Victimization and Socio-Economic Status on People’s Crime-Reporting Behavior

Avdija¹,

Giever²

2012

IJAP

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not prior victimizat ion, along with socio-economic status affect people's willingness to report crimes to authorities. This study is limited to addressing the effect of prior v ictimization on willingness to report crimes by 1) the type of victimizat ion (i.e., being a v ictim of property crimes or a victim o f crimes against persons), 2) being a vict im of a crime, regardless of the type of crime versus not being a victim, and 3) the difference in crime-report ing variation between the two. The findings of this research study are based on the analyses of the data that have been collected through a self-admin istered survey questionnaire distributed to 531 undergraduate university students. Overall, the findings that emerged fro m this study suggest that prior victimizat ion cannot be considered a good predictor of crime -reporting behavior.

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Family Violence Statistics: Including Statistics on Strangers and Acquaintances

Cited by 87 publications

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Domestic Violence in Men's and Women's Magazines: Women Are Guilty of Choosing the Wrong Men, Men Are Not Guilty of Hitting Women

Domestic Violence in Men's and Women's Magazines: Women Are Guilty of Choosing the Wrong Men, Men Are Not Guilty of Hitting Women

Sex Disparities in Arrest Outcomes for Domestic Violence

The Impact of Prior Victimization and Socio-Economic Status on People’s Crime-Reporting Behavior

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