Domestic Violence

MEASURING THE EXTENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

by Anna Ferrante, Frank Morgan, David Indermaur, Richard Harding

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
   1. Measuring the extent of domestic violence
   2. Terms used and their definition
   3. The scope of the study and the value of measurement
   4. Methods of measuring domestic violence
      1. Police records
      2. Records of other service providers
      3. Surveys of crime, violence and conflict
      4. Samples of special groups
      5. Multiple methods and multiple indicators
      6. The comparative method
   5. Estimates from service provider records
      1. Police records
      2. Hospital records
   6. Results from large random surveys
      1. Australian surveys
      2. International comparisons
   7. Structure of this book
2. Reports to Police
   1. Introduction
   2. Offences reported to police
      1. How much violence reported to the police is domestic?
      2. Domestic homicides
      3. Characteristics of domestic violence victims
      4. Domestic violence against Aborigines
      5. Domestic violence and socio-economic status
   3. Dispatch calls
   4. Small area analysis: Armadale
      1. Family Incident Reports (FIRs)
      2. FIR victim and offender characteristics
      3. FIR incident characteristics
   5. Summary and discussion
3. Victimisation Survey
   1. Introduction
   2. Methodology
   3. General levels of violence reported in victimisation surveys
   4. All violence against men and women
      1. Prevalence of victimisation
      2. An analysis of incident characteristics
      3. Reporting incidents to police
      4. Seriouness of incidents
   5. The prevalence and incidence of domestic violence
      1. Domestic violence against men
      2. Domestic violence against women
      3. Characteristics of domestic and non-domestic violence incidents against women
      4. Reporting to police
      5. Seriousness of incidents
   6. Characteristics of domestic violence incidents and victims
      1. Physical injury
      2. Reporting to police
      3. Seriousness
   7. Conclusion
4. Domestic Violence and the Courts
   1. Introduction
   2. Restraining orders
   3. Discussion and summary
5. Community Services and Hospital Admissions
   1. Emergency accommodation
   2. Hospital statistics
   3. Conclusion
6. Integration
   1. The range of results from different data sources
      1. Domestic homicide
      2. Hospital admissions
      3. Police recorded offences
      4. Call dispatch data
      5. Restraining orders
      6. Armadale Family Incident data
      7. The CRC survey
   2. Plausibility and consistency of estimates
      1. The injury dimension
      2. The dimension of legal system involvement
   3. Patterns and risk factors
      1. Socio-economic status
      2. Relationship between victim and offender
   4. Conclusion

   Appendix

   Bibliography and References

Published: March 1996
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