NCJ Number
139630
Journal
Violence and Victims Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1992) Pages: 157-171
Date Published
1992
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This study utilized an OLS time series analysis to examine the relationship between the timing and outcomes of Washington Redskins football games and the frequency of Northern Virginia emergency room admissions of women for traumas resulting from assaults, assumed to be committed by intimate companions.
Abstract
The analysis controlled for days of the week, months, years, and special holidays for the period 1988-1989. Four groups of victims were analyzed: female victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, and assaults; male victims of the same types of trauma; female victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, assaults, falls, struck by objects, and lacerations; and males suffering similar injuries. The findings showed that Washington Redskin football victories were associated with increased emergency room admissions for women suffering from assaultive injuries. Team losses were correlated with increased assaults aga inst men and decreased assaults against women. These data are congruent with theories which suggest that aggression is modeled when it is perceived as efficacious. Football victories mirror broader social values that promote male violence over women. The findings also suggest that the mechanisms leading to assault on men and women may be qualitatively different. 2 tables and 56 references