TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Intimate Violence in Canada and the United States: A Cross-National Comparison
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Grandin, Elaine
A1  - Lupri, Eugen
SP  - 417
EP  - 443
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
N2  - Using data from the 1985 U.S. National Family Violence Resurvey and the 1986 Canadian National Family Life Survey, this paper compares incidence of intimate violence or common couple violence (Johnson, 1995) in both countries. As expected, gender symmetry characterizes common couple violence, which is a product of the privatized setting of many American and Canadian households. Although the United States exhibits significantly higher rates of societal violent crime than Canada, Canadian women and men were more likely than their American counterparts to use severe intimate violence and to inflict it, as well as minor violence, more often, which is contrary to the culture of violence theory that guided the study. Similarly, the higher rates of wife-to-husband severe violence across the life course in both countries are inconsistent with the theory. Several ad hoc explanations are presented to account for these unexpected findings.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021935610051
ID  - ref1
ER  -