Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance
Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented mor...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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Evaluation review
Year: 2010 |
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Summary: | Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents were considered to be a restraining order violation although many orders were active in the city at the time. The data appeared to be of good quality and just a few changes in recording procedures would increase Compstat’s usefulness for public health in U.S. cities |
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ISSN: | 1552-3926 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0193841x09360323 |