There's a report at the NZ Herald about family violence. It's come from NewstalkZB:
Figures released to Mike Hosking Breakfast under the Official Information Act show police launched 121,739 thousand family violence investigations last year - or 333 a day.....Yet as those numbers increase, the number of apprehensions and prosecutions is trending down with 16,764 prosecutions made last year – down more than 2500 from 2008.I had to read the report twice cause I couldn't understand the point they were trying to make. Why?
Look at the table they made:
Coincidentally, directly before reading this I was chewing through a research report into Pacific family violence.
Amazingly reference is made to 'family structure' being a contributor:
Changes in traditional family structures and dynamics that may contribute to violence in Pacific families include an increase in single-parent households and the absence ofThat's highly unusual from anything funded or published by MSD.
fathers (and male role models) within the immediate family structure (Pacific Advisory Group, 2009).
Also of interest, the Pacific authors make a point not often heard that 'Pacific people' are grouped together but comprise seven different island groups that do not necessarily share homogeneous cultural or belief systems which results in differing behaviours. Highlighting that is a graph that shows how varying the types of family violence are across the different groups:
(Left click on image to enlarge)
Update: The NZ Herald table has now been corrected.
4 comments:
Do they draw any inferences on what causes the difference between the ethnicities?
I omitted the link. The graph is at p33. But to answer your question, not really.
https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/research/pacific/msd-literaturereview-report-18-v4.pdf
Lindsay, further to my previous comments to you regarding family violence statistics, in this our community newspaper, the police report 11 domestic disputes responded to in the past week, with 2 arrests. our small sparsely populated rural district is doing its share to uphold its place in national trends.
I suppose there is an opportunity here to make some dollars running a national numbers racket. Fortunes have been made from crazier ideas.......
An interesting finding from the Dunedin long term study is that:
40% of males in the study (they are all now about 48 yrs old) admit to initiatinG violence in the home, but
50% OF FEMALES ADMIT TO INITIATING VIOLENCE IN THE HOME..
Its not just a male problem at all.
When they found these details, no one would publish their findings because "they knew that it was a male problem".
I think the reason why its thought to be a male problem is that retaliation by the male can be much stronger than the first action.
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