TY  - SER
AU  - 
TI  - The gender debate about intimate partner violence : : solutions and dead ends
PY  - 2009///
PB  - American Psychological Association
KW  - DATA ANALYSIS
KW  - RECOMMENDED READING
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - GENDER
KW  - GENDER SYMMETRY DEBATE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - PERPETRATORS
KW  - WOMEN'S USE OF VIOLENCE
KW  - UNITED STATES
N1  - Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2009, 1(1): 24-34; Recommended reading
N2  - "The debate on gender continues to define much scholarship on partner violence. No other single issue is as important to identifying one's theoretical and political position among those who are concerned about intimate partner violence (IPV). At this point in time, several well-documented conclusions can be drawn. First, two common estimates—under 10% female-perpetrated and 50% or more female-perpetrated—are quite discrepant from virtually all other data on physical violence. Second, several key definitional and measurement issues explain a large part of this discrepancy. Third, a number of commonly mentioned possibilities for measurement artifacts are unlikely sources of the gender parity found in many studies of IPV. This article will review each of these issues and suggest a third approach, the moderate asymmetry approach. The moderate asymmetry hypothesis for IPV is currently best-supported by the data, and it should be emphasized until a better alternative is found.: (Author's abstract). Record #5311
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015066
ER  -