It's a bit of a slog, but this study is a gold mine

FookSake · 2015-05-27T21:33:15+00:00

It may be 100 pages long, but I've found a good three dozen concrete, usable discrimination statistics in here. Not to mention a handful of page-long eloquent tearings apart of typical 'feminist jurisprudence' justification for legal discrimination.

Worth the read, if you're interested in gender discrimination in law enforcement (particularly as it relates to intimate partner violence). If nothing else, read pp. 100-106 for a feel for the quality and type of material covered.

A few examples of some particularly well-worded passages here

2015-05-28T14:15:24+00:00

This is great. Go to Google Scholar and type in the title of this. It's been cited 71 times. Click the citation link and they come up - it's a treasure trove of DV-against-men literature.

KrisK_lvin · 2015-05-27T22:27:24+00:00

How did you come across it? 2004's relatively recent, but has there been nothing since? Why this paper is what I'm asking?

Abstract

A great deal of sociological evidence has been collected in the past three decades on the prevalence of abuse among adult heterosexual partners in domestic relationships of some degree, of permanence. Partly as a result, of this information, partner abuse has been identified as an important social ill that must be addressed aggressively through public-awareness campaigns, the funding of a broad range of support services, and the re-training of law-enforcement authorities—including police, prosecutors, and judges. However, in at least one important respect, these policy initiatives diverge substantially from what the sociological data, which ostensibly motivates them, would indicate: they have been, to date, overwhelmingly gender specific. That is, partner abuse is routinely portrayed and acted upon as though it were almost exclusively about men abusing and victimizing innocent women and, by extension, their children—despite the overwhelming sociological evidence that a significant amount of abuse is also suffered by male partners. Persistent anecdotal reports from victims and even some participants in the law-enforcement system suggest that this ideological emphasis on the male as perpetrator has had a deleterious effect on the impartial administration of justice, resulting in men being treated much more harshly than women who are accused of partner violence. This study attempts to determine whether the anecdotes are scientifically supportable.

Title	It's a bit of a slog, but this study is a gold mine
Author	FookSake
Upvotes	16
Comments	6
Date	May 27, 2015 9:29 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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