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Where Do “Domestic Violence” Statistics Come From and Why Do They Vary So Much?

Publication year: 2009 | Cataloged on: Sep. 12, 2011

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  • 025110

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  • 2009
  • 12 pages

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  • Spouse Abuse
Thumbnail preview ANNOTATION: “This paper helps to clarify some of the misunderstandings, errors, and apparent contradictions that derive from these differences in language use [of domestic violence and intimate partner violence], in part from not understanding where the statistics come from and what the strengths and limitations of the data are, and in part from wrongly treating “domestic violence” as a single phenomenon” (p. 2). Sections of this brief include: an example; types of intimate partner violence; sources of statistics—survey data and agency data; what questions are asked and what questions need to be asked; back to the example; and lessons learned.
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