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1 Ronet Bachman & Linda E. Saltzman, Violence against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey 1 (1995)

handle is hein.peggy/vilagwom0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ( U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs BueuoIutc atitc Spca Repor August 1995, NCJ-154348 National Crime Victimization Survey Violence against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey By Ronet Bachman, Ph.D. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Statistician Linda E. Saltzman, Ph.D. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Senior Scientist Estimating rates of violence against women, particularly sexual assault and other incidents which are perpe- trated by intimate offenders, continues to be a difficult task. Many factors inhibit women from reporting these victimizations both to police and to interviewers, including the private nature of the event, the perceived stigma associated with one's victimi- zation, and the belief that no purpose wil be served in reporting it. The redesign of the National Crime Victimization Survey After an extensive 10-year redesign project, the National Crime Victimiza- tion Survey (NCVS) has been revised. A redesigned questionnaire was in wide use by January 1992. One goal of the redesign was to produce more accurate reporting of incidents of rape and sexual assault and of any kind of crimes committed by intimates or fam- ily members. The new NCVS questionnaire encour- ages reporting of incidents in several ways. Questions were addedto let respondents know that the interviewer is interested in a broad spectrum of incidents, not just those involving weapons, severe violence, or violence perpetrated by strangers. New meth- ods of cuing respondents about poten- tial experiences with victimizations increased the range of incident types that are being reported to interviewers. And behavior-specific wording has replaced criminal justice terminology to make the questions more under- standable. Highigt * Women age 12 or older annually sustained almost 5 million violent victimizations in 1992 and 1993. About 75% of all lone-offender vio- lence against women and 45% of violence involving multiple-offenders was perpetrated by offenders whom the victim knew. In 29% of all vio- lence against women by a lone offender, the perpetrator was an intimate (husband, ex-husband, boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend). * Women were about 6 times more likely than men to experience vio- lence committed by an intimate. * Women annually reported about 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults to interviewers. Friends or acquaint- ances of the victims committed over half of these rapes or sexual as- saults. Strangers were responsible for about 1 in 5. * Women of all races and Hispanic and non-Hispanic women were about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate. * Women age 19 to 29 and women in families with incomes below $10,000 were more likely than other women to be victims of violence by an intimate. * Among victims of violence commit- ted by an intimate, the victimization rate of women separated from their husbands was about 3 times higher than that of divorced women and about 25 times higher than that of married women. Because the NCVS reflects a respondent's mari- tal status at the time of the interview, which is up to 6 months after the in- cident, it is possible that separation or divorce followed the violence. * Female victims of violence by an intimate were more often injured by the violence than females victimized by a stranger.

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