Citation

Pattavina A, Hirschel JD, Buzawa E, Faggiani D, Bentley H. Violence Against Women 2007; 13(4): 374-394.

Affiliation

University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801207299206

PMID

17420516

Abstract

It has been argued that the police do not respond to domestic calls involving same-sex couples in the same manner as they respond to calls involving heterosexual couples. A major problem facing researchers examining the police response to cases involving same-sex couples has been the lack of adequately sized samples. In this article, the authors utilize the 2000 National Incident Based Reporting System database, which contains 176,488 intimate partner assaults and intimidation incidents reported to 2,819 police departments in 19 states. The key issue examined is whether similar cases involving same-sex and heterosexual couples result in the same police response.

Language: en