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 | | From: | MCP | | Subject: | Rates of Severe Spousal Violence by Gender | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:05:49 GMT |
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 | http://www.menweb.org/throop/battery/gelles/rateKY.html
CTS Survey #1 CTS Survey #2 Kentucky
1975 (N=2143) 1985 (N=3520) 1979
wife huband wife husband wife
victim vicitm victim victim victim
1) Threw something 28 52 28 43 29
2) Pushed, grabbed, or shoved 107 83 93 89 85
3) Slapped 51 46 29 41 48
4) kicked, bit, or hit with fist 24 31 15 24 14
5) Hit or tried to hit with something 22 30 17 30 22
6) Beat up 11 6 8 4 18
7) Threat with gun or knife 4 6 4 6 14
8) Used gun or knife 3 2 2 2 4
Overall violence (1-8) 121 116 113 121
severe violence (5-8) 38 46 30 44
To give a little background on how the rates of violence were determined, by
Strauss & Gelles I include the following question from the published survey
for the CTS methodology:
Question 35:
No matter how well a couple gets along, there are times when they
disagree, get annoyed with the other person, or just have spats or fights
because they're in a bad mood or tired or for some other reason. They also
use many different ways of trying to settle their differences. I'm going to
read some things that you and your spouse might do when you have an
argument. I would like you to tell me how many times in the last 12 months
you:
a) Discussed an issue calmly
b) Got information to back up your/his/her side of things
c) Brought in or tried to bring in someone to settle things
d) Insulted or swore at him/her
....
m) Slapped him or her
.... (rest of items covered by 1-8 go here)The data below from "Behind Closed
Doors" have husband reports and wife reports of violence. As you can see,
there is no evidence of differential reporting, at least not with the
methods/methodology used by Straus and Gelles (it remains possible that
there is some sort of similar effect that could influence a less
well-designed methodology). Source of data % violent husbands
% violent wives
Spouses (1) 9.1 17.9
Students (1) 16.7 9.5
Students (2) 11.3 11.4
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Husbands (3) 12.8 11.3
Wives (3) 11.2 11.7
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Source: 1 Bulcroft and Straus, 1975 (N=57)
2 Straus, 1974a (N=385)
3 The national sample described in "Behind Closed Doors"
Sample (1) asked all members of the family to fill out the survey. Sample
(3) interviewed only one member of any family. It's not entirely clear to me
what sample (2) did. The data from sample (1) appears to be anomolous
compared to the other two samples. Straus and Gelles comment that it might
be the small sample size or other characteristics of the sample. A lot of
people try to make a big deal out of the anomalies in the very-low-sample
size data from Bulcroft and Straus, Straus, M.A., Gelles, R.J., and
Steinmetz , S.K. Behind closed doors: Violence in American families
Doubleday, New York, 1980 Gelles, Richard J. and Straus, Murray A. Intimate
Violence: The causes and consequences of abuse in the American Family, Simon
& Schuster Inc, New York, 1988 "The Survey of Spousal Violence Against Women
in Kentucky" (WDC,1979) "Physical Violence in American Families: Risk
Factors and Adaptions to Violence in 8145 Families" Richard Gelles and
Murray Straus. NoteCTS stands for "Conflict Tactic Scales". This describes
the question where they start with getting people to admit that they
discussed an issue calmly :-) and gradually work their way up to asking abut
violence.
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