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Results of U.S. Department of Justice (National Institute of Justice) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joint study on Violence against Women (and Men), Nov. 1998
(study conducted on 8000 men and 8000 women over the telephone, by the Center for Policy Research)

Full report is available here: PDF

We were alerted to this report recently (11/14/02) by thought-provoking analysis on the issue of "husband-battering" by blogger "Alas, a blog". His basic conclusion is that there is significant evidence that women face much more abuse and battering than men, contrary to claims by men's rights groups that they are subject to fairly equal amount of abuse as women are. We highly recommend not only the report above but also his article/blog.

For the sake of clarity we highlight below the main results of the DOJ-CDC study. We have directly reproduced some of the conclusions and figures from this landmark study to emphasize the key conclusions. Among other things, this study shows that in domestic partner violence, women bear the brunt of the rape and physical assault. 

Violence against Women

Issue	Main Findings		Supporting Data in Report in Chart/Table form (Exhibit # refers to # in report)	Report's Comments
.	MEN	WOMEN	.	.
1. Sexual assaults in lifetime	3.0 %	17.6 %	Exhibit 1 (Click to enlarge)	-
2. Physical assaults in lifetime	66.4 %	52 %	Exhibit 1 (Click to enlarge)	-
3. Sexual assaults by ethnicity	-	See table	Exhibit 4 (Click to enlarge)	Data for American Indian /Alaska Natives and Asian/ Pacific Islander women should be taken with some caution owing to lower sample size but other studies don't appear to contradict this
4. Sexual assault by age	-	See table	Exhibit 6 (Click to enlarge)	Rape is primarily a crime against youth (and young  women)
5. Rape by intimate partner in lifetime	0.3 %	7.7 %	Exhibit 7 (Click to enlarge)	Women get raped or sexually assaulted by intimate partners dramatically more than men do
6. Physical assault by intimate partner in lifetime	7.4 %	22.1 %	Exhibit 7 (Click to enlarge)	Women get physically assaulted by intimate partners dramatically more than men do
7. Perpetrators of physical assault and rape, by relationship	See chart	See chart	Exhibit 9 (Click to enlarge)	- Women get raped or physically assaulted in a majority of cases by their intimate partners - Men get assaulted or raped in a majority of cases by acquaintances or strangers
8. Perpetrators and victims of rape and physical assault, by sex	See chart	See chart	Exhibit 10 (Click to enlarge)	- Women are victimized by men 93% of the time - Men are victimized by women only 23% of the time.
9. Injuries from  (a) rape  (b) physical assault	16.1 % 24.8 %	31.5 % 39.0%	Exhibit 11 (Click to enlarge)	- Women are 50-100% more  likely to be injured after a  sexual or physical assault,  than men
10. Stalking victims, over lifetime	2.2 %	8.1 %	Exhibit 15 (Click to enlarge)	-