Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance

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intimate partner violence
Compstat system
police
law enforcement
injury
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Joshi, Manisha
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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.

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2010-04-01
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Postprint version. Joshi, M., & Sorenson, S. B. (2010). Intimate partner violence at the scene: Incident characteristics and implications for public health surveillance. Evaluation Review, 34(2), 116-136. doi: 10.1177/0193841X09360323 The final published version of this article can be found online at: http://erx.sagepub.com/content/34/2/116
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