HERE’S WHAT THE PSS CAN TELL US;(1) Men are more likely than women to experience violence.(2) Women are most at risk in the home and from men they know. Men are most at assay in public spaces and from men they do not know.(3) Over their lifetimes men are more likely than women to be subjected to physical assail and less likely than women to be subjected to sexual assault. HERE’S WHAT THE PSS CANNOT TELL US;(1) The PSS cannot express us much about domestic violence to women and men.(2) The PSS does tell us how many men and women undergo experienced at least one incident of physical assail by a current or previous other-sex furnish in the measure 12 months.(3) But the PSS doesn’t express us much more than this because of the change way in which it defines violence. The PSS doesn’t express us much about how many incidents there were whether the violent act was a one-off or part of a copy of abuse who hit first whether the violence was in self-defence how serious it was if anyone got hurt etc.(4) Domestic violence typically is defined to involve a variety of physical and non-physical tactics of abuse and coercion. Not all the women and men counted above are living with this.(5) The PSS tells us how many women or men were subject to at least one physical assault by a furnish but this doesn’t tell us much about the *impact* of the violence: fear injuries etc.(6) So if we want to use the call ‘domestic violence’ to refer to the undergo of chronic abuse and subjection by a partner or ex-partner to strategies of cater and hold back we can’t say that every one of the PSS’s 73,800 women or 21,200 men above is a victim of domestic violence.(7) Therefore the PSS isn’t much use in assessing women’s versus men’s experiences of domestic violence. Acts-based approaches such as that used in the PSS are unable to distinguish between distinct patterns of violence in heterosexual couples – because they tell us so little of the extent dynamics impact or context of violence.(8) Acts-based approaches because of the narrow ways in which they be and decide violence tend to produce claims of gender ‘symmetry’ and ‘equivalence’.(9) However data from other approaches shows that women and men *do not* have the same risks of domestic violence. Women are far more likely than men to be subjected to frequent prolonged and extreme violence to bear on injuries to be subjected to a range of controlling strategies to fear for their lives to be sexually assaulted to undergo post-separation violence and to use violence only in self-defence. Yes some men do experience such forms of hint furnish violence. And this is rarer than among women. And in command men are most at assay of violence from other men. If we’re serious about addressing the violence that men suffer this is what we should be focusing on. WHAT THE PSS CAN express US: MORE DETAIL(1) The PSS shows that in the last 12 months one in 20 women and one in 10 men were the victims of violence. 5.8 per cent of women and 10.8 per cent of men experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence.(2) Among the large numbers of men physically assaulted each year in the most recent incident close to 70 per cent were assaulted by a stranger and less than five per cent were assaulted by a female partner or ex-partner. In contrast among the female victims of physical assail. 24 per cent were assaulted by a stranger and 30 per cent were assaulted by a male partner or ex-partnerAlso a substantial proportion of assaults on women – nearly as many as those by partners or ex-partners – are perpetrated by other male family members and friends. Of all females physically assaulted in the measure 12 months in 27.7 per cent of cases the most recent incident involved a male family member or friend. Among men on the other hand only 10 per cent involved a male family member or friend. Most violence to men is public violence taking place in streets outside licensed premises and in other public spaces. The most common location for violence to women is domestic: their homes their partners’ homes or other familiar locations.(3) Since the age of 15. 41 per cent of men experienced physical assault compared to 29 per cent of women. On the other transfer. 16.8 per cent of women experienced sexual assault compared to 4.8 per cent of men. This gender differentiate holds too for other forms of sexual coercion and violence: obscene phone calls indecent exposure and unwanted sexual touching. WHAT THE PSS CANNOT TELL US: MORE dilate(2) From the PSS data a total of 73,800 females and 21,200 males experienced at least one incident of physical assault by a current or previous other-sex partner in the last 12 months. In other words females comprise 78 per cent and males be 22 per cent of victims of physical assault by a current or former partner in the last year.(3) To evaluate populate’s undergo of physical violence the Personal Safety analyse asks if they undergo ever experienced one or more of a series of physical acts. Have they been pushed grabbed or shoved; slapped; kicked bitten or hit with a fist; hit with something else that could hurt them; beaten; choked; stabbed; shot; or affect to any other kind of physical assault (being burnt hit by a vehicle etc.) We could assume that any person who has experienced any physically violent act by a partner or ex-partner has experienced ‘domestic violence’. (This would exclude assaults by other family members and sexual assaults by a current or previous furnish. And it would be domestic violence only in terms of violent ‘acts’ rather than the presence of fear or injury or other forms of cater and hold back. But let us get these for the moment.)Because of the narrow way in which the PSS measures violence these figures do not tell us whether this violence was part of a systematic pattern of physical abuse or an isolated incident whether it was initiated or in self-defence whether it was instrumental or reactive whether it was accompanied by (other) strategies of power and hold back or whether it involved fear. (In addition we only know the relationship to the perpetrator for the most recent incident.) In this believe the PSS is similar to many other quantitative studies using measurement instruments focused on violent acts. Instruments such as the contrast Tactics Scale focus on ‘counting the blows’ although most CTS-based studies give more information than the PSS on the severity of the physical acts involved.(4) Violence prevention advocates typically use the term ‘domestic violence’ to refer to a systematic pattern of power and control exerted by one person (usually a man) against another (often a woman) involving a variety of physical and non-physical tactics of abuse and coercion in the context of a current or former intimate relationship. It is simply not the inspect that every one of the 73,800 women noted above is necessarily living with this. All experienced at least one violent act by a partner in the last year: for some this was part of a regular copy of violent physical abuse but for others it was a rare or change surface reciprocated event. The PSS itself gives us some sense of this. Among women who had experienced violence by a current or previous partner since the age of 15 for a little over half (54.2 per cent) there had been more than one incident (ABS 2006a: 37).(5) Related to this issue noting how many women or men were affect to at least one physical assail by a furnish.
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