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Women are twice as fearful for their lives as men given a similar objective probability of death

Topic: Violence

Source

Citation: Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, pp. 19-20

Author(s): Brown

Institution(s):

Link: http://www.familyofmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Grant_Partner_Violence.pdf

Nation(s): Canada

Year(s): 1999

Source: Secondary

Type: Journal

Discussion

Other Notes:

p. 19 – “only one in about 700 women who feared for her life as a result of a dispute with her partner was actually killed; and only one in about 350 men who feared for his life as a result of a dispute with his partner was actually killed.”; p. 55 of the same study elaborates