Researching violence against women: Statistics Canada's national survey

Johnson, H. R.; Sacco, Vincent F.

doi:10.3138/cjcrim.37.3.281

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“…The use of the CTS in major international and nations surveys such as the Demographic And Health Surveys and in the US National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (Black et al, 2011) suggests that the designers of these studies could not identify a more valid instrument. This also applies to the Canadian Violence Against Women Survey (Johnson & Sacco, 1995). The designers investigated alternatives to the CTS for more than a year, including extensive consultation with experts and battered women's advocates, focus groups, public hearings, and field testing.…”

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The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)

Straus

Hamby

Boney-McCoy

et al. 1996

Journal of Family Issues

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More than 200 studies have found "gender symmetry" in perpetration of violence against a marital or dating partner in the sense that about the same percent of women as men physically assault a marital or dating partner. Most of these studies obtained the data using the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS). However, these results have been challenged by numerous articles in the past 25 years that have asserted that the CTS is invalid. This article identifies and responds to 11 purported methodological problems of the CTS, and two other bases for the belief that the CTS is not valid. The discussion argues that the repeated assertion over the past 25 years that the CTS is invalid is not primarily about methodology. Rather it is primarily about theories and values concerning the results of research showing gender symmetry in perpetration. According to the prevailing "patriarchal dominance" theory, these results cannot be true and therefore the CTS must be invalid. The conclusion suggests that an essential part of the effort to prevent and treat violence against women and by women requires taking into account the dyadic nature of partner violence through use of instruments such as the CTS that measure violence by both partners.

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Section: Are Other Measures More Valid?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)

Straus

Hamby

Boney-McCoy

et al. 1996

Journal of Family Issues

5,765

1,980

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“…The literature suggests that studies that are smaller in scope but dedicated primarily to the issues of domestic violence and IPV demonstrate higher estimates compared to government-led national surveys [33]. Possible reasons are the use of a less sophisticated sampling strategy and innovative ways of asking relevant questions about the nature of VAW [34]. Brush [33] shared an analogous idea that a survey with a wider focus is inevitably restricted in time and the effort required to elicit responses.…”

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An Integrative Review of the Methods Used to Research the Prevalence of Violence against Women in Pakistan

Madhani

Tompkins

Jack

et al. 2014

Advances in Nursing

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This paper is a report of an integrative review conducted to assess the methodological and ethical strategies used to protect participants and researchers in conducting violence against women (VAW) studies in Pakistan. The measurement of the prevalence of violence against women in Pakistan is challenging for researchers given the cultural norms and the traditional role of women. Lack of methodological rigor in addressing the concerns can result in underreporting of violence, create physical and emotional risk for the participants, interviewers, and researchers, and impose threats to internal and external validity of VAW studies. Using Whittemore and Knafl’s process for conducting an integrative review, 11 studies published between 1999 and 2012, reporting on prevalence, experiences, and factors associated with violence in a marital relationship were analyzed. Overall, studies reveal an underreporting of exposure to violence and threats to women and interviewers’ safety in the conduct of such studies, both of which present threats to study rigor. The utilization of WHO ethical and safety recommendations to guide VAW studies in this context should be considered.

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“…6 By having first explored violent crime by strangers, these surveys may have shaped women's responses to the extent of violence they experienced at the hands of their partners. Examples of this kind of survey are the Australian Bureau of Statistics (1997) and Johnson and Sacco (1995). 7 Taken together, however, although these (and other) surveys vary considerably in their estimates of prevalence of men's violence against their female partners, we can suggest that probably somewhere between one in three and one in five women have experienced some level of violence at the hands of their current partner at least once during their relationship and that around one in ten have experienced at least one act of physical or sexual abuse in the previous twelve months.…”

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Re‐visioning Men's Violence Against Female Partners

Morris

Gelsthorpe

2000

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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This article considers some of the tensions surrounding criminal justice interventions to deal with men's violence against their female partners. Some commentators argue for the increased criminalisation and penalisation of violent men, and others focus on a more caring vision of justice, for example. This article reviews what has been achieved to deal with men's violence via the law and criminal justice system and explores the potential of more restorative approaches in this sphere.'Re-vision -the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes … is for women … an act of survival' (Rich 1979)

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Researching violence against women: Statistics Canada's national survey

Cited by 133 publications

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The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)

The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2)

An Integrative Review of the Methods Used to Research the Prevalence of Violence against Women in Pakistan

Re‐visioning Men's Violence Against Female Partners

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