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RADAR Media Fact Sheet
- Women are just as likely as men to engage in partner
aggression.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report,
"In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the
perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases. Reciprocity was
associated with more frequent violence among women, but not
men." [Source: Whitaker, Haileyesus, Swahn and Saltzman,
Differences in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury
Between Relationships With Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal
Intimate Partner Violence, American Journal of Public
Health, May 2007, Vol 97, No. 5, pp. 941-947, http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941]
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Psychologist John Archer reviewed hundreds of studies and
concluded, “Women were slightly more likely than men to use
one or more act of physical aggression and to use such acts more
frequently.” [Source: John Archer: Sex differences in
aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic review.
Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 126, No. 5, pages 651-680]
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Law professor Linda Kelly noted, "leading sociologists have
repeatedly found that men and women commit violence at similar
rates." [Source: Linda Kelly: Disabusing the definition of
domestic abuse. Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 30,
pages 791-855, 2003. Accessible at:
http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/304/kelly.pdf
]
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An international survey of violence between dating partners in 16
countries concluded: “Perhaps the most important similarity
is the high rate of assault perpetrated by both male and female
students in all the countries.” [Source: Murray Straus:
Prevalence of violence against dating partners by male and female
university students worldwide. Violence Against Women, Vol. 10,
No. 7, 2001]
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Cal State Psychology Professor Martin Fiebert has
assembled a bibliography of 175 scholarly investigations:
139 empirical studies and 36 reviews and/or analyses,
which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive,
or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with
their spouses or male partners.
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
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An analysis of the data collected by the National Violence
Against Women (NVAW) Survey found that more women than men
engage in controlling behavior in their current marriages,
but there was no statistically significant difference
between men's and women's use of controlling behaviors in
former marriages. Controlling husbands were not
particularly likely to engage in frequent, injurious, or
unprovoked violence. Husband and wives did not differ in
their motivation to control. [Source: Sociology Professors
Richard B. Felson (Penn State) and Maureen C. Outlaw
(Providence College) "The Control Motive and Marital
Violence," Violence and Victims, 2007, Vol. 22, Issue 4 http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/17691548/full_citation/The_control_motive_and_marital_violence_
- Men experience over one-third of DV-related injuries.
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Of all persons who suffer an injury from partner
aggression, 38% are male. [Source: John Archer: Sex differences
in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic
review. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 126, No. 5, pages 651-680]
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Of all persons who require medical treatment as the
result of partner aggression, 35% are male. [Source: John Archer:
Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A
meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 126, No. 5,
Table 5]
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Men who are victims of severe domestic violence suffer other
problems, as well [Source: Richard J. Gelles: Intimate Violence
in Families, 1997]:
- 30% experienced depression
- 14% required bed rest to recuperate from the injuries
- 10% needed to take time off from work
- Men are far less likely to report DV incidents than women.
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According to the National Family Violence Survey, female victims
of DV are nine times more likely to call the police than
male DV victims. These are the percentages of victims who called
the police in response to the assault:
[Source: JE Stets and MA Straus: Gender differences in reporting
marital violence and its medical and psychological consequences. In
Straus and Gelles (editors): Physical violence in American families,
1990, Table 15.]
- The myths about domestic violence are numerous.
These are some of the common myths about domestic violence:
- According to the FBI, a woman is beaten every 15 seconds
- 4,000 women each year are killed by their husbands,
ex-husbands, or boyfriends
- There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the
United states as there are shelters for women
- Battering during pregnancy is the leading cause of birth
defects and infant mortality
- Women who kill their batterers receive longer prison sentences
than men who kill their partners
Richard Gelles, an internationally-recognized expert on domestic
violence, refers to many of these claims as “factoids from
nowhere.” [http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/factoid/factoid.html]
- Many of these myths are based on DV studies that use biased
survey methods.
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Some studies survey women but not men. Predictably, these studies
yield one-sided findings.
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The DOJ National Crime Victimization Survey is flawed because
persons do not consider most forms of domestic violence, such as
slapping, shoving, or throwing an object at a partner, to be a
crime.
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The DOJ National Violence Against Women survey prefaces the
questions by repeatedly using the phrase “personal
safety.” Those words bias the responses because women are more
concerned about personal safety than men.
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Some studies of domestic violence assess both physical and verbal
abuse. That inflates and distorts the picture of physical violence.
[Source: MA Straus: The controversy over domestic violence by women:
A methodological, theoretical, and sociology of science analysis. In
XB Arriaga and S Oskamp: Violence in intimate relationships. Sage
Publishers, 1999. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/CTS21.pdf]
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