@article{ref1,
title="Understanding gender-based violence perpetration to create a safer future for women and girls",
journal="Lancet global health",
year="2013",
author="Decker, Michele R. and Miller, Elizabeth and Illangasekare, Samantha and Silverman, Jay G.",
volume="1",
number="4",
pages="e170-e171",
abstract="Worldwide, one in three women experience gender-based violence, which imparts physical, mental, and sexual health morbidities. It also causes mortality--more than a third of homicides of women are attributable to male partners. These data justifiably create global outrage, accentuated by horrific recent high-profile cases, including the brutal gang rape of a student in New Delhi, and the attempted assassination of Pakistani student and education activist Malala Yousafzai. However, mounting of an effective, evidence-based, sustainable response to gender-based violence has proven elusive, partly because of the paucity of data for the population that we need to understand the most: the perpetrators of gender-based violence. Most research into such violence focuses on victimisation, which provides invaluable insight into survivors' experiences, risk factors, and needs for support. However, to put a stop to this global pandemic demands a fundamental understanding, and modification, of the behaviour of gender-based violence perpetrators. Population-based data for men's violence perpetration and its root causes are scarce and are mostly limited to Africa. Analyses of the UN Multi-country Cross-sectional Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific presented in The Lancet Global Health represent a major advancement in that they describe the epidemiology of perpetration of the main forms of gender-based violence--intimate partner violence and non-partner rape--in a large and generalisable sample from the world's most populous region. Such violence perpetration, including rape by multiple perpetrators, was prevalent, with 25-80% of the men studied perpetrating physical, sexual, or both types of intimate partner violence, and 3-27% committing single perpetrator non-partner rape. The findings offer much-needed direction for prevention and intervention.  Targeting of interventions is essential....<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2214-109X",
doi="10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70085-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70085-8"
}