TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Persistence, intensity, and areal extent of violence against women: Baltimore city, 1992 to 1995
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Harries, Keith
A1  - Kovandzic, Eric
SP  - 813
EP  - 828
VL  - 5
IS  - 7
N2  - The authors focus on the density of assaults against women in Baltimore City, expressed in terms of persistence, intensity, and areal extent. Aggravated assaults and homicides with female victims were abstracted from the data base of all such events in police files for the 4 years 1992 to 1995 (N = 36,286). Women were victims in 209 homicides and 12,553 aggravated assaults. Problem areas were delineated using a threshold incident density of approximately two standard deviations above the mean. Maps expressing this density level were prepared for each year. The intersection of each annual high density pattern with census block group geography was determined, and block groups were divided into two classes: those intersecting high density zones and those not intersecting. The authors report on salient census characteristics of the two sets of block groups and comment on relevant policy implications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778019922181491
ID  - ref1
ER  -