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Family Violence Statistics: Including Statistics on Strangers and Acquaintances
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: This compendium provides "statistical snapshots of family violence at different stages in the administration of justice" (p. 1). Sections of this report are: highlights, definitions, and counting rules; reported and unreported family violence; fatal family violence; family violence reported to police; family violence recorded by police; state prosecution of family assault; federal prosecution of domestic violence; family violence offenders in prison; family violence offenders in jail; methodology; and appendix -- discrepant findings from two different ways of measuring family violence.