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Title

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

Author(s)

Manisha Joshi
Susan B. Sorenson, University of PennsylvaniaFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

4-1-2010

Abstract

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.

Comments

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

Keywords

intimate partner violence, Compstat system, police, law enforcement, injury

Recommended Citation

Joshi, M., & Sorenson, S. B. (2010). Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/spp_papers/157