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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
Mercy, J. A., & Saltzman, L. E. (1989). Fatal violence among spouses in the United States, 1975-85. American Journal of Public Health, 79, 595-599. (Examined FBI figures regarding spousal homicides. During the 10 year period from 1975 to 1985 found higher murder rates of wives than husbands <43.4% vs 56.6%>. Black husbands were at the greatest risk of victimization. Spousal homicide among blacks was 8.4 times higher than that of whites. Spouse homicide rates were 7.7 times higher in interracial marriages and the risk of victimization for both whites and blacks increased as age differences between spouses increased. Wives and husbands were equally likely to be killed by firearms <approximately 72% of the time> while husbands were more likely to be stabbed and wives more likely to bludgeoned to death. Arguments apparently escalated to murder in 67% of spouse homicides.)
Wilson, M. I. & Daley, M. (1992). Who kills whom in spouse killings? On the exceptional sex ratio of spousal homicides in the United States. Criminology, 30, 189-215. (Authors summarize research which indicates that between 1976 and 1985, for every 100 men who killed their wives, about 75 women killed their husbands. Authors report original data from a number of cities, e.g., Chicago, Detroit, Houston, where the ratio of wives as perpetrators exceeds that of husbands.)
Most recent study.
Davis. R. L. (2010). Domestic Violence-related deaths. Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, 2 (2), 44-52. (A review article which examines domestic violence-related suicides. Author concludes that "when domestic violence-related suicides are combined with domestic homicides, the total numbers of domestic violence-related deaths are higher for males than females.")
This is what I have found myself. I'm still waiting to hear back from my requests yesterday morning. These, while they are in the USA certainly describe a distinct need for aid for men where it currently does not exist. I havn't been able to find a domestic violence shelter for men in the USA as well.
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As much as I love scholarly journals, there's obviously a wide strike zone.
We're getting published articles that go all over the place. Depending on the sample and analyzing methods ("Measuring stick" if you will), you can get widely different results.
I understand whoever put this up put a lot of time into it, but if you cherry pick from either angle, you can get an extremely long list with some prolific names on it. This is certainly something that can't be proven with a simple link or a few papers, as with this issue, where there's one, there are probably 3 or 4 ready with a counter argument (heck, even if you go to a basic site such as Wikipedia, they'll throw contradictory evidence for analyzing the case.
Another note basic sites like Wikipedia point out is that the measurement system and analytic system seems to be out of date. I don't have time to read through each paper, but it indicates that the gold standard is CTS, which is purely subjective in its reporting and a pretty tough measure because of how it works...a quick read implies that if a women punches a man after he's whipping a kid, it counts as female-on-male violence. Additionally, if a man hits a women back after she lays a serious beating on him, that qualifies as both acting in violence using CTS.
One interesting thing that stood out was the note made by Kimmel, who suggests a reporting bias where men overestimate their abuse and underestimate their abusive nature, and vise versa for women. However, that too is purely speculative. He also points out that CTS only counts physical abuse, not sexual, and qualifies form of physical violence as abuse. So, as in the above example, it'd qualify both the female and the male as equally violent, though my hypthetical example should seriously favour the male.
One note that does heavily stand out is the "sexual abuse is not considered" note by Kimmel. If this is true (and from what I can tell from my overview on it, it is), this means that there are some things the number isn't showing us...that physical abuse may be one-sided, but the overall domestic abuse, and aggregate of various types of abuse, may be less so. Alternatively, some areas are poorly researched (which one it is can be put up to debate).
As HPLovecraft suggests, I wonder if equal funding really is the solution. I think there's not enough data to state that there'd be equal usage and if it's the ideal solution. I would happily suggest more trial centres from the government to see if this works. Dip our feet into the concept and get sample data, if you will.