NCJ Number
129523
Date Published
1991
Length
15 pages
Annotation
Data was obtained from the 1985 National Family Violence Survey to examine the issue of violence in three settings: violence outside the home (toward a non-family member), spousal violence, and parent-to-child violence.
Abstract
Over three-fourths of the 1,251 men and 1,705 women surveyed were not violent in 1985 in the three settings studied; 285 (22.8 percent) of the men and 394 (23.2 percent) of the women reported being violent in the previous year. Men and women had nearly equal rates of spousal violence and parent-to-child violence, but men were over three times as likely as women to fight and hit a non-family member. The most important analysis finding was the small number of men and women who were violent in two or more settings. The findings suggest that violence toward others by male and female adults is contextual in nature. The tendency of those men and women who have demonstrated violence toward a non-family member is toward constraint and limited usually to one of the studied settings. 2 tables, 2 figures, and 26 references