NCJ Number
234519
Date Published
2010
Length
166 pages
Annotation
This study investigated domestic violence in the Netherlands.
Abstract
Results show that more than 9 percent of the Dutch population has been a victim of obvious domestic violence in the preceding 5 years. Nearly 75 percent of the cases of obvious domestic violence included physical violence and sexual violence with approximately 60 percent of those victims being women and 40 percent being men; this demonstrates a considerable shift in the gender proportion of victims. Approximately 40 percent of the Dutch population reported one or several unpleasant incidents in the family circle of relatively low seriousness or incidents of domestic violence that had occurred more than 5 years ago. Approximately 50 percent of the Dutch population never experienced any form of domestic violence or any unpleasant incidents in the family circle. Data were collected from 9,508 using an online panel survey and 816 of those responders who reported that they were victims of domestic violence in the online survey were given face-to-face interviews. The data was validated by secondary analyses using 9,504 police and judicial data reports. The online survey proved to insufficiently represent ethnic groups. Tables and figures