Neighborhood Environment, Racial Position, and Risk of Police-Reported Domestic Violence: A Contextual Analysis

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions to risk of police-reported domestic violence in relation to victim's race. Data on race came from police forms legally mandated for the reporting of domestic violence and sexual assaul...

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Published in:Public health reports (1974) 2003-01, Vol.118 (1), p.44-58
Main Authors: Deborah N. Pearlman, Zierler, Sally, Annie Gjelsvik, Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Biological and medical sciences
Black women
Censuses
Crimes against
Domestic violence
Domestic Violence - economics
Domestic Violence - ethnology
Domestic Violence - statistics & numerical data
European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Family violence
Female
Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data
Hispanic women
Hispanics
Humans
Mandatory Reporting
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Minority Groups
Neighborhoods
Police
Population Surveillance
Poverty
Prejudice
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public health
Race
Racial aspects
Regression Analysis
Residence Characteristics
Rhode Island
Rhode Island - epidemiology
Risk Assessment
Social conditions
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
Unemployment
United States
Victimology
Violence against women
White people
Women
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Summary:Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions to risk of police-reported domestic violence in relation to victim's race. Data on race came from police forms legally mandated for the reporting of domestic violence and sexual assault. Methods: Using 1990 U.S. census block group data and data for the years 1996-1998 from Rhode Island's domestic violence surveillance system, the authors generated annual and relative risk of police-reported domestic violence and estimates of trends stratified by age, race (black, Hispanic, or white), and neighborhood measures of socioeconomic conditions. Race-specific linear regression models were constructed with average annual risk of police-reported domestic violence as the dependent variable. Results: Across all levels of neighborhood poverty (
ISSN:0033-3549
1468-2877
DOI:10.1016/S0033-3549(04)50216-9