Intimate partner violence at the scene: incident characteristics and implications for public health surveillance.
Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence (IPV) 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 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.
Joshi
Manisha
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School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. manishaj@sp2.upenn.edu
Sorenson
Susan B
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D015980:Public Health Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018454:Spouses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology