TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - A comparison of the police response to heterosexual versus same-sex intimate partner violence
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Pattavina, April
A1  - Hirschel, J. David
A1  - Buzawa, Eve
A1  - Faggiani, Don
A1  - Bentley, Helen
SP  - 374
EP  - 394
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
N2  - It has been argued that the police do not respond to domestic calls involving same-sex couples in the same manner as they respond to calls involving heterosexual couples. A major problem facing researchers examining the police response to cases involving same-sex couples has been the lack of adequately sized samples. In this article, the authors utilize the 2000 National Incident Based Reporting System database, which contains 176,488 intimate partner assaults and intimidation incidents reported to 2,819 police departments in 19 states. The key issue examined is whether similar cases involving same-sex and heterosexual couples result in the same police response.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801207299206
ID  - ref1
ER  -