NCJ Number
182284
Journal
Violence and Victims Volume: 14 Issue: 4 Dated: Winter 1999 Pages: 413-425
Date Published
1999
Length
13 pages
Annotation
Using data from a nationally representative telephone survey that was conducted from November 1995 to May 1996, this study compared lifetime experiences with violent victimization among men and women with a history of same-sex cohabitation and their counterparts with a history of marriage and/or opposite-sex cohabitation only.
Abstract
The study found that respondents who had lived with a same-sex intimate partner were significantly more likely than respondents who had married or lived with an opposite-sex partner only to have been raped as minors and adults, physically assaulted as children by adult caretakers, and physically assaulted as adults by all types of perpetrators, including intimate partners. The study also confirms previous reports that intimate-partner violence is more prevalent among gay male couples than heterosexual couples; however, it contradicts reports that intimate-partner violence is more prevalent among lesbian couples than heterosexual couples. Overall, study findings suggest that intimate-partner violence is perpetrated primarily by men, whether against same-sex or opposite-sex partners. 5 tables and 33 references