NCJ Number
188239
Date Published
June 1999
Length
136 pages
Annotation
This report presents Europeans' views on domestic violence against women.
Abstract
The report examines what Europeans think about issues relating to domestic violence against women. It is divided into sections that examine how much Europeans know about the issue, what they know about sources of information, how widespread they imagine this sort of violence to be, how seriously they take it, what factors they think cause it, which organizations should help the women affected, what they know about the laws on related issues, how useful they think various approaches are in combating domestic violence, and whether the European Union has a part to play. In each country, the questions were put to a representative sample of the national population aged 15 and over, a total of 16,179 people. Data are presented in narrative and tabular forms. Only 4 percent of those surveyed had never heard of domestic violence against women. Of those who had, 89 percent had heard of it through television, 65 percent through the press, and 44 percent through the radio. One person in two thought this type of violence was "fairly common", one in four that it was "very common", 18 percent "not very common", and 1 percent "not at all common". More than two out of three respondents (67 percent) felt the European Union should "definitely" get involved in combating domestic violence against women. Figures