Citation

Bachman R, Carmody DC. J. Fam. Violence 1994; 9(4): 317-331.

Affiliation

Bureau of Justice Statistics, 633 Indiana Ave. NW, 20531 Washington, DC; Department of Sociology, Western Washington University, 98226 Bellingham, Washington

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01531942

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The consequences of violence against woman are myriad, ranging from extreme psychological trauma to severe physical injury and even death. Utilizing the National Crime Victimization Survey, this paper explored the extent to which victim resistance, either physical or verbal/passive, during an assault differentially produced injury between intimate and stranger perpetrated assaults. It was found that female victims of assaults perpetrated by intimates were nearly twice as likely to sustain injury if they used either physical or verbal self-protective behavior. The only significant predictor of injury sustained by female victims of stranger perpetrated assaults, however, was presence of a weapon.