Domestic Violence Drops by More Than Half

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Child abuse and other forms of violence involving families fell by more than half between 1993 and 2002, in line with the decline in crime overall, the government said Sunday.

The rate of family violence fell from about 5.4 victims to 2.1 victims per 1,000 residents age 12 and older, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

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The study by the Justice Department agency found that:

_73 percent of victims were female.

_75 percent of offenders were male.

_most of all family violence happened in or near the victim's home.

_74 percent of victims were white.

_most victims were between 25 and 54.

_79 percent of offenders were white; most were at least 30.

Esta Soler, president of the Family Violence Prevention Fund, said the report "offers a ray of hope that our nation is finally on the right track in addressing the violence that devastates so many families in this country.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050612/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/domestic_violence

[Dogmudgeon]

1. And in the last 3 years, it has risen again

Anyone care to guess why?

--p!

[slackmaster]

21. Cite please

:shrug:

[Dogmudgeon]

24. Knock yerself out ...

http://virlib.ncjrs.org/Statistics.asp

They even have an abstract of data collection for prison rape.

--p!

[slackmaster]

27. The topic is "Domestic Violence"

I spent 10 minutes going through the contents of the NCJRS site and couldn't find any articles with DV statistics newer than 2002.

How about helping a poor busy fellow DUer out?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Fell by more than half?

Bullshit.

I don't believe any of that. Not one bit.

Oh, it's from "the government"?

Our "government"?

Then it's surely false.

[XanaDUer]

3. Don't believe it either.

Doesn't domestic violence increase when the economy goes south?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. It sure does

And the numbers of reported incidents fall off, because there's no manpower to handle them.

[Ian David]

7. It could be down because all the men are off in Iraq

Or else gay marriage is having a positive influence on the family and is destined to save Western Civilization.

Of course, that's purely speculation and wishful thinking.

It's probably because people are too busy watching all that fascinating reality TV to beat their wives. "You lying bitch, I'm gonna beat the... hey, it's time for Tribal Council!"

I wish people would believe that Boston won the World Series because we legalized gay marriage.

[Beaverhausen]

23. 1993 to 2002 covers the Clinton Administration

When the economy was good!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

28. It's from the government, though

I don't trust anything from the government.

Anything.

[Rose Siding]

4. Between '93 and '02.

I wonder how many of the "services" that Balos credits are still viable.

[SouthernDem2004]

6. The reason it did fall...

Domestic Violence laws were strengthened in the late 80's/early 90s. Police actually started arresting and charging more and more... I have noticed the decrease in the years I have been working. Courts are dealing with the suspect and providing the victims with options.

Also, there are alot more Women's Advocacy groups around now. Women's shelters do alot of good. So.... if you need some place to volunteer...

[daleo]

8. 1993 to 2002

Eight of those years were under Clinton, two under Bush. Domestic violence probably did fall during the Clinton years, due mostly to the improving economy and the more hopeful political environment. Things will have went down the tubes under the Bush economy, and the fear mongering of his administration.

[montana_hazeleyes]

9. I saw the same thing.

You are right, NO doubt it will sky rocket now. We already know it has amongst the returning troops.

[Shallah Kali]

10. Since so many offenders are white males maybe they should be special laws

to restrict their marriages and what jobs they can tack. After all isn't that the logic of the religious right when attacking homosexuals?

:sarcasm:

[mom cat]

20. What a queer idea!

:sarcasm:

[bain_sidhe]

11. I wonder how much it fell between 1993 and 2000?

IOW, how much of that decline took place before the current Bullshit regime?

[Demeter]

12. Nobody Is Cohabitating, Either

I don't know enough married or committed couples to count on the fingers.

[Maddy McCall]

13. REPORTING it fell.

That does NOT mean that instances of FV declined.

[mandyky]

16. EXACTLY!

As a woman who has been in 2 abusive relationships, and was talked out of pressing changes by the cops, I find this study useless and misleading.

[sweetheart]

14. Its because of abortion

Domestic violence comes from households where a kid should never be
raised in the first place, and is passed on to the next generation.
So, since roe vs. Wade, those unwanted kids "arn't there", and neither
is the next generation of violence.

There is a very reputable economist that has put this together as a
conclusive statistical study i read about in passing... proven with
rock solid econometrics.

[AlCzervik]

15. OK i would really like to belive this info but-----

and isn't there always one, the bankruptcy filings have gone a big time and so have home foreclosures and I'm sure stressful situations like that would cause domestic violence.

[WildClarySage]

17. While overall DV did decrease during the "Clinton Prosperity Years"

making it seem like the trend is continuing now is a cheap attempt to make slashing DV and family services funding palatable.

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[geek tragedy]

19. I'm assuming you have data to back that kind of disgusting smear up.

That is to say, that military servicepeople are significantly more likely to commit that offence than the general population.

Or do you just hate our troops?

[MGKrebs]

22. Here are some charts (oh boy!)

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance.htm#Crime

We can see that the general trend is that crime went down all through the 90's and has started back up again from 2000-2001.

[LeighAnn]

25. Half is not enough

It was a good start, but BushCo is blowing it. How about none? I'm a utopiast (is there such a thing?). I believe there are resources enough to sustain every man, woman, and child happily and in prosperity until time indefinate, not through socialism, but through revolution and what-not. Like what happened in 1776 only on a global scale. I'm just afraid it won't happen until we are very old. I can see us watching Bush and Rove as old men being pushed in wheelchairs into their war crimes trials like that Killen guy and Pinochet. Justice delayed is justice denied.
I wonder how many generations were there from tyranny to independence in the early days of this country? Was England tyrannical in the Pilgrim days and all that, or was it just King George?

Sorry, thinking out loud.

Domestic violence is as old as mankind, but we know better now and we could have the best of both worlds. But not if these corrupt governments and corporations and media outfits keep poisoning our minds and our lives with their chemicals and their poverty and oppression.

Once they are out of the picture, life will be ham and jam.

[shockra]

26. I don't believe this.

Also, I was just reading on another thread about a shelter in Tennessee that rescues the pets of domestic violence victims. They're having to close because demand for their services keeps rising beyond their ability to raise funds.

It's a great idea, because often their pets are the only friends battered women have, and they're afraid to leave them behind and at the mercy of their husbands/boyfriends. Battered Women's Shelters won't take in pets, so many of these women choose not to go.

One story from one of the Tennessee shelter's employees, before she started working there:

"My first client (as a counselor at a women’s center in Wisconsin) came in very apologetic and said, ‘I have to go home.’ When I tried to tell her that she didn’t have to go home, she said, ‘No, you don’t understand." She pulled out of her purse a couple of pictures and handed them to me without comment. They were pictures that her mother had forwarded to her that her husband had sent to the mother…They were pictures of him chopping off the ears of her dog with gardening shears. She said, ‘I have to go home…If I want to save my dog’s life and the lives of the other animals on the farm, I have to go home.’ I didn’t have any answers for her. I didn’t have any way of helping her…We never heard from her again." (Ann Quinlisk, 1997 – cited in Lerner <1998>)

http://www.roadhomerescue.org/

A Humane Society article called Animal Cruelty and Family Violence: Making the Connection

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/first_strike_the_connection_between_animal_cruelty_and_human_violence/animal_cruelty_and_family_violence_making_the_connection/