Researching Domestic Violence: The North London Domestic Violence Survey

Mooney, Jayne

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-24543-7_11

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“…Community surveys indicate that up to one in four women have experienced domestic violence 6 – 8. In studies in the United States 1 9 10 and Australia,11 between 5% and 20% of the women attending general practice reported experiencing domestic violence in the past year.…”

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Reported frequency of domestic violence: cross sectional survey of women attending general practice

Bradley

Smith

Long

et al. 2002

BMJ

196

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Objectives To determine exposure to violence by a partner or spouse among women attending general practice and its association with respondents' demographic and personal characteristics; frequency of inquiry about violence by general practitioners; and women's views on routine questioning about domestic violence by general practitioners. Design Cross sectional, self administered, anonymous survey. Setting 22 volunteer Irish general practices. Participants 1871 women attending general practice. Main outcome measures Proportion who had experienced domestic violence, severity of such violence, and context in which violence occurred. Results Of the 1692 women who had ever had a sexual relationship, 651 (39%, 95% confidence interval 36% to 41%) had experienced violent behaviour by a partner. 78/651 (12%) women reported that their doctor had asked about domestic violence. 298/651 (46%, 42% to 50%) women had been injured, 60 (20%) of whom reported that their doctor had asked about domestic violence. 1304/1692 (77%, 77% to 80%) were in favour of routine inquiry about domestic violence by their usual general practitioner. 1170 women (69%) reported controlling behaviour by their partner and 475 (28%) reported feeling afraid of their previous or current partner. Women who reported domestic violence were 32 times more likely to be afraid of their partner than women who did not report such violence. Conclusions Almost two fifths of women had experienced domestic violence but few recalled being asked about it. Most women favoured routine questioning by their practitioner about such violence. Asking women about fear of their partner and controlling behaviour may be a useful way of identifying those who have experienced domestic violence.

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Reported frequency of domestic violence: cross sectional survey of women attending general practice

Bradley

Smith

Long

et al. 2002

BMJ

196

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“…Second, it is based on a working class sample, so the description of marital violence may reflect the socio-economic group under investigation and may not be generalisable to the population as a whole. Although there is some evidence that marital violence is particularly prevalent in working class areas (McClintock, 1963), other writers have challenged this view and argued that marital violence is a phenomenon that is characteristic of all 260 socio-economic groups (Canning, 1984;Dobash and Dobash, 1979;Lees, 1996Lees, , 1997Mooney, 1993aMooney, , 1993bPagelow, 1981). However, it may not be equally characteristic of all socio-economic groups.…”

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“…A more recent survey, carried out in the North London Borough of Islington, found that, of 571 randomly sampled women, 10% had experienced violence from their partners over a 12 month period and 6% had been forced to have sex. In just over 2% of cases, violence had been threatened or used (Mooney, 1993a;1993b). Valuable though these individual studies are in providing a fuller picture of the extent of physical and sexual violence against women, they are beset by problems of generalising from their findings to the general population (Smith, 1989).…”

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“…Not only is it difficult to discover what goes on in homes using formal interviews but it is also argued that legal categories and quantitative methods, characteristic of omnibus crime surveys, are an inappropriate means of encapsulating the range and breadth of women's experience of physical and sexual violence accumulated over a lifetime (Kelly, 1987;Mooney, 1993aMooney, , 1993bPainter, 1992;Stanko, 1987Stanko, , 1988Walklate, 1989;Young, 1988).…”

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Marital Violence in Great Britain and its Relationship to Marital and Non-Marital Rape

Painter

Farrington

1998

International Review of Victimology

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The National Survey of Wives in Great Britain was carried out to estimate the prevalence of violence by husbands against wives and the prevalence of rape of wives inside and outside marriage. A quota sample of 1,007 wives, drawn from each of the 10 standard regions of Great Britain, were interviewed. The results showed that 28% of wives had been hit by their husband, while 13% had sexual intercourse with their husband against their will. Lower class wives, and separated or divorced wives, were particularly likely to have been assaulted. The assaulted wives were disproportionally likely also to have been raped. Also, 13% of wives had been forced to have sex by someone other than their husband, and altogether 22% had been raped inside or outside marriage.

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“…Domestic violence is reported by up to one in four women in Britain1 and represents a serious public health issue. The psychological and social consequences of domestic violence include alcohol and drug dependence, suicide attempts, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder 2 3.…”

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