Citation

Rosen LN. Violence Against Women 2006; 12(11): 997-1002.

Affiliation

National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801206293326

PMID

17043362

Abstract

This article provides a brief account of the historical background to the Gender Symmetry Workshop and describes its major goals. The Workshop is a successor to an earlier workshop co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Justice in 1998, namely the Workshop on Building Data Systems for Monitoring and Responding to Violence Against Women. Some key issues that were left unresolved in that workshop provided the rationale for holding the Gender Symmetry Workshop. The Workshop was designed to cover three topic areas: (1) a typology of violence, (2) measurement issues, and (3) women's use of violence.

Language: en