Geographic concentration of violence between intimate partners.
OBJECTIVE
To explore geographic patterns of violence between intimate partners in a metropolitan area with one of the highest injury mortality rates in the nation-Duval County, Florida, which includes the city of Jacksonville.


METHODS
Using police reports of all serious violent incidents in Duval County in 1992 excluding robberies, the authors analyzed patterns in the location of the incidents. Only cases for which the relationship between the offender and victim was recorded were used.


RESULTS
Thematic maps reveal that census tracts with rates above the 75th percentile of assaultive violence between intimates are clustered in certain parts of the city. Concentrated poverty tracts had median rates of violence between intimate nine times higher than other tracts.


CONCLUSIONS
The finding that violence between intimate partners is concentrated in central city poverty neighborhoods opens up avenues for prevention.
Miles-Doan
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Center for the Study of Population, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-4063, USA. rmiles@coss.fsu.edu
Kelly
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D000328:Adult; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D011204:Poverty Areas; D014505:Urban Population