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Research and Public Policy Series
No. 56: Women's experiences of male violence : findings from the Australian component of the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS)
Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai
ISBN 0 642 53842 5 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology: 2004
This publication is out-of-print.
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Abstract
The International Violence Against Women Survey was conducted across Australia between December 2002 and June 2003. A total of 6,677 women aged between 18 and 69 years participated in the survey, and provided information on their experiences of physical and sexual violence. This report describes the type of violence (including threats of violence) by current and former intimate male partners, other known males, such as relatives, friends and acquaintances, and strangers. It also examines women's reported experiences of childhood violence, as well as their perceptions and reactions to the violence they experienced.
Contents
- Title and contents (PDF 993kB)
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of terms
- Executive summary
- Chapter one: Introduction
- Chapter two: Prevalence and severity of violence
- Chapter three: Intimate partner violence, severity and correlates of victimisation
- Chapter four: Non-partner violence: prevalence, severity and correlates of victimisation
- Chapter five: Childhood victimisation and the cycle of violence
- Chapter six: Victims' perceptions and reactions to violence
- Chapter seven: Concluding comments : where to from here?
- References
- Appendix 1: Methodology of IVAWS
- Appendix 2: Comparison between CSS, WSS and IVAWS
- Back cover (PDF 38kB)
Related links
- Fact sheets: Controlling behaviours of male partners; Trends in recorded sexual assault
- Project information: International Violence Against Women Survey 2002
- Topic: Women and crime