The Risk of Serious Physical Injury from Assault by a Woman Intimate. The National Violence Against Women Survey estimates that each year, 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. Re-examination of the NVAW survey data on the form of victimization suggests that of the 834,732 men assaulted by an intimate, 90,241 men will be knifed, 180,483 threatened by a knife, 360,965 hit with an object, 67,681 beaten up and 620,049 slapped or hit. Here are the data. This is a draft of a paper to be subjected to peer-review and submitted for publication.


Domestic Violence in Washington: 25,473 Men a Year Applying the National Violence Against Women Survey's national estimate of the annual rate of violence by an intimate to Washington suggests that each year 42,824 women and 25,473 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. Re-examination of the NVAW survey data on the form of victimization and applying those results to Washington suggests that a knife will be used on 2,754 men, 5,508 will be threatened with a knife and 11,016 hit with an object. Here are the data. Note: This is not a peer-reviewed paper or a paper published or pending publication in an academic journal.


The Controversy over Domestic Violence by Women Pre-publication review of an article by Dr. Murray A. Straus. Dr. Straus' full papers are also on MenWeb:
The Controversy over Domestic Violence by Women and
Characteristics of the National Violence Against Women Study that Might Explain the Low Assault Rate for Both Sexes and the Even Lower Rate for Assaults by Women


Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The ecological fallacy Dr. Donald G. Dutton. There's no one cause for domestic violence: some forms of psychopathology lead to some men adopting patriarchal ideology to justify and rationalize their own pathology. Feminist paradigm ignores contrary evidence.


Aggression in British Heterosexual Relationships
Michelle Carrado, M.J. George et al. Both sexes reported victimization with a higher percentage of men, mainly as a result of minor acts of assault. Almost equal percentages of men and women reported inflicting victimization.


Domestic Violence as seen in an Inner-City Emergency Room Men are victims of domestic violence as often as women according to a study involving 516 patients at the emergency department of Charity Hospital, New Orleans, La. Using the validated Index of Spousal Abuse, the researchers said 19% of the women patients and 20% of the men had experienced recent physical violence. They pointed out that some experts fear attention to domestic violence against men will de-emphasize the importance of services for women. Here is an abstract of that study, published in the August 1997 issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine and reported in the August 27, 1997 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Society (JAMA. 1997;278:620)


References Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male partners: An Annotated Bibliography by Martin S. Fiebert, California State University, Long Beach. This bibliography examines 123 scholarly investigations: 99 empirical studies and 24 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 77,000. Updated 2001


Family Violence
Rev. Sam and Bunny Sewell. "This misunderstanding of the family violence issue is so pervasive that city and county governments, the courts, law enforcement, prosecutor’s offices, mental health clinics, and other tax supported agencies are now funding programs based on feminist propaganda rather than responsible scientific studies."


Studies comparing gender differences in dating violence A summary 0f 32 studies, at Rev. Jim & Bunny Sewell's Web site. Women are as likely to initiate violence, they say.


All Men Are Bastards. Dodgy figures and suspect ideological interpretations give the impression that violence by men against women is rampant says JOHN COOCHEY. The reality is very different. Article by John Coochey. Published in The Independent Monthly, November 1995


Police training
PATROL CONSTABLES' PERCEPTIONS OF WIFE ASSAULT SENSITIVITY TRAINING: A QUALITATIVE EVALUATION by Theresa Petkau. "a social construction fraught with oversimplifications, dramatizations, and contradictions."


Debunking DV Factoids
Dr. Richard Gelles, a leading researcher in the field, points out that many of the factoids cited by domestic violence advocates are false or misleading. Dr. Gelles co-authored Behind Closed Doors, the book that first made America aware of the extent of domestic violence.


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