Feminist myth that women are less likely to report domestic violence than other violence: busted. Men are the only ones who have an unusual hesitation to report violence.

truthjusticeca · 2011-09-17T04:27:58+00:00

citation

Richard B. Felson and Paul-Philippe Paré (2005). The Reporting of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault by Nonstrangers to the Police. Journal of Marriage and Family.

truthjusticeca · 2011-09-17T04:49:55+00:00

Dutton and Corvo have a great discussion on this, my favorite part is their dissection of Michael Kimmel in section 5.2. This is a partial quote.

Despite Kimmel's claim that men call the police more frequently, they in fact, rarely do—(Brown, 2004; Laroche, 2005; Stets & Straus, 1992a,b). Stets and Straus reported men calling police for less than 1% of assaults initiated by their partner (p.155). The reason for this is obvious. Men are rarely taken seriously by the police and charges are rarely laid (Brown, 2004; Buzawa, Austin, Bannon, & Jackson, 1992). Brown found only moderate increases in police arrest of women, even when the man was injured. Buzawa et al. cite a case in Detroit where the police refused to arrest the woman despite the man's being stabbed in the back. Any studies that base estimates of domestic violence incidence on criminal justice statistics will be greatly biased. It is for this reason, we suspect, that Kimmel tries to manufacture the belief that men call the cops more often. The true finding reveals the bias in criminal justice studies. http://www.nfvlrc.org/docs/DuttonCorvo.policypaper.pdf

Title	Feminist myth that women are less likely to report domestic violence than other violence: busted. Men are the only ones who have an unusual hesitation to report violence.
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Date	September 17, 2011 4:26 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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