NCJ Number
216534
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 12 Issue: 12 Dated: December 2006 Pages: 1105-1131
Date Published
December 2006
Length
27 pages
Annotation
This study analyzed data from the National Violence Against Women Survey to estimate the prevalence of the different forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by women in the United States.
Abstract
Although nearly 19 percent of the United States women had disclosed intimate partner violence (IPV), a small percentage reported multiple or co-occurring types of IPV. A known percentage of women within the general population of the United States, at some time within their intimate adult relationships, could require some type of informal or formal intervention in response to an episode of partner violence. The study showed how important it is for researchers who work from different perspectives to reach for shared understandings pertaining to the persistent problem of IPV. It demonstrated the need to respond to unique victim types with criminal justice, health, and therapeutic interventions. Previous studies have addressed the need to accurately define and specify types of domestic violence. This study attempted to address how the social problem of IPV that harms women in contemporary United States society could be most accurately characterized and what explained the different types of violence that women in the general population experienced. The key purpose was to measure the different or multiple types of IPV that women disclosed. The study used violence prevalence data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) which measures physical assaults, threats, rapes, and attempted rapes, and stalking incidents. The NVAWS data was used to measure the types of violent events that occurred and co-occurred in women’s lives and relationships. Tables, figures, notes, and references