Despite a growing body of knowledge concerning family abuse, there is little research
focusing on domestic violence in rural settings. Likewise, there is a paucity of research on�…

Reported incidence and frequency rates of domestic violence in Russia exceed Western
figures by 4 or 5 times. Although a grassroots social services movement has emerged to�…

This book is based on public opinion surveys gathered for the Family Violence Prevention
Fund from 1992 to 1996. Setting the stage with an overview of the battered women's�…

To further an understanding of violence against women, a national telephone survey on
violence was conducted from November 1995 to May 1996. The survey sampled�…

It is not surprising that research employing diverse methodologies has yielded very different
estimates of intimate-perpetrated violence against women. The purpose of this article is to�…

This report expands on the work of an earlier National Research Council panel whose
report, Understanding Violence Against Women, was published in 1996. The report is based�…

In recent years, increased attention has been focused on the victimization of women in
domestic assaults. Several studies, derived from police reports, shelter populations, and�…

LIFETIME AND ANNUAL INCIDENCE OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND RESULTING
INJURIES--GEORGIA, 1995 Contents 1.TABLE 1. Number and percentage of women aged�…

Background: VIOLENCE against women and threat of VIOLENCE are some of the main
barriers to women's empowerment and equal participation in the society. However, they�…

Study objective: To determine the prevalence of domestic violence (DV) for male and female
ED patients and to determine the demographics of DV. Methods: The study design was a�…