WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Intimate Partner Violence, General Social Survey, Dating Abuse
3 Oct 2012
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Its about gender: violence again women by men and based on gender inequity in society. It"s about violence: violence between people in relationship, and follow the same patterns of other types of violence. Some facts about sex differences (ipv intimate partner violence) Who"s more violent [depends on the type of violence, ho wit is measures and who you get the data from: criminal justice data: who"s arrested. Men make up the majority for instance of intimate partner violence. In the general population, we see women are at least as likely as men to engage in ipv, but tends not to be as serious. Data from crime victimization survey- canadian general social survey: a different framing of the question. The more serious the violence the more a bigger gap in sex differences. One data that doesn"t suffer form the downsides intimate homicides in. Canada: female victims clearly do out number male.
