Domestic violence, like all violence, is a human issue. It is not merely a gender issue.
Women are as inclined as men are to engage in physically abusive acts in domestic�…

This article is a response to three questions posed by the editor about past and future
research on interpersonal violence by focusing in this essay on domestic violence:(a) What�…

Family violence ha. s been receiving increasing attention from citizens, policymakers, the
media, and the criminal justice system. This report looks at the difficulties in estimating the�…

Estimates of the prevalence of marital violence have been found to vary dramatically from
survey to survey. This paper addresses one potential explanation for this difference which�…

An overview of domestic violence reports on the prevalence of nonfatal domestic violence;
the percentage of police calls that involve domestic violence; the time of day when domestic�…

Using data from the 1985 US National Family Violence Resurvey and the 1986 Canadian
National Family Life Survey, this paper compares incidence of intimate violence or “common�…

This study estimates the lifetime prevalence of violent experiences and their relationship to
health and the use of health services in US women aged 18–64 years. The Commonwealth�…

Study objective: In 1992, a study of the prevalence and predictors of domestic violence
victims among individuals who presented to a major public hospital emergency department�…

This report, from the series of DHS Analytical Studies, uses household and individual-level
data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program to examine the prevalence�…