Domestic Abuse in Civilian & Military Jurisdictions

RESPONSES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CIVILIAN

AND MILITARY JURISDICTIONS IN CONNECTICUT

Lanning (1998) defines domestic violence/abuse as the occurrence of one or more of the following acts between

family or household members, or between partners of a substantive dating relationship: attempting to cause or causing physical harm; placing another in fear of imminent physical harm; causing another to engage involuntarily in sexual relations by force, threat, or duress. The conducted study compared domestic abuse in civilian and military jurisdictions for the purposes of:

(1) determining whether the sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, and ethnicity) placed military and civilian jurisdictions at the same or different levels of risk for domestic violence/abuse;

(2) determining whether the incidence of spousal/partner battery, child battery and/or child sexual abuse occurred at the same or at different rates for civilian and military populations;

(3) determining whether the action taken toward domestic abusers (referred for judicial action; referred for counseling; dismissed or other administrative action) was the same or different for civilian and military populations.

(4) determining whether the percentages of abusers across military and civilian jurisdictions were the same or different with respect to gender.

So that the undertaken study can be fully understood, the next section of the paper presents comprehensive background infor

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