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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Main Author: Joshi, Manisha (Author)
Contributors: Sorenson, Susan B
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2010
In: 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
ISSN:1552-3926
DOI:10.1177/0193841x09360323