RT Article
T1 A fuzzy index and severity scale to measure violence against women
JF Social indicators research
VO 148
SP 225
OP 249
A1 Bettio, Francesca
A2 Ticci, Elisa
A2 Betti, Gianni
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1897355785
AB Measuring and comparing levels of violence against women across individuals or countries are controversial exercises, and yet they remain essential to understanding the phenomenon. We develop a scale of severity of violence against women based on fuzzy set theory. The scale can be used to derive fuzzy indexes of violence which account for the prevalence, frequency and severity of violence. Unlike existing alternatives, however, the scale that we propose is based on objective information rather than subjective assessment; it is parsimonious in terms of the amount of information that it requires; and it is less vulnerable to risks of cultural bias. We exploit our scale to unravel a puzzle which arises from the largest survey of violence against women in Europe to date, namely that some of the more gender equal countries record higher prevalence rates for violence from intimate partners. We show that the puzzle is resolved once violence is weighted by severity using our scale instead of being measured by simple prevalence.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248-249
NO Gesehen am: 01.08.2024
K1 violence against women
K1 Fuzzy set theory
K1 Severity of violence scales
K1 Gender
K1 Europe
DO 10.1007/s11205-019-02197-7