TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault

Notes/Citations
1 This report uses the term domestic violence, recognizing that
intimate partner violence and even family violence are terms used
widely to represent the same, or similar, problems.
2 Noel Bridget Busch et al., A Health Survey of Texans: A Focus on
Sexual Assault, Final Report (Austin, Texas: Institute on Domestic
Violence & Sexual Assault, August 2003); and Saurage
Research, Perceptions, and Awareness of Domestic Violence As
Reported by Residents in the State of Texas: A Quantitative Study
(Austin, Texas: Texas Council on Family Violence, August 2002).
3 Busch et al., A Health Survey of Texans, p.iii. In 2001, Texas
reported 8,169 forcible rapes in the FBI’s Uniform Crime
Reporting Program. See Crime in the United States – 2001.
Available online: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/01cius.htm. Accessed:
September 25, 2003.
4 Saurage Research, Prevalence, Perceptions, and Awareness of
Domestic Violence in Texas, Executive Summary (Austin, Texas:
Texas Council on Family Violence, February 11, 2003), p. 5.
5 Busch et al., A Health Survey of Texans, p. iv; and Saurage
Research, Executive Summary.
6 Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women, Center for
Health and Gender Equity & Population Information Program
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health,
1999). Available Online:
http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/l11/violence.pdf.
7 Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes, Extent, Nature and
Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the
National Violence Against Women Survey (Washington D.C.: US
Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs; 2000), publication
NCJ 181867. Eight thousand women and 8,000 men, 18 years
and older, were surveyed (the women’s survey also contacted
4,829 ineligible households, 4,608 eligible households that
refused to participate, and 351 interviews that terminated before
completion yielding a 71 percent response rate, p. 7).
8 Tjaden et al., Extent, Nature and Consequences.
9 Ibid., pp. iii-v.
10 Ibid., p. v.
11 The Violence Policy Center analyzes the Supplementary
Homicide Report (SHR) data submitted to the FBI’s Uniform
Crime Reporting (UCR) Program each year to compare female
murders by males in single victim/single offender incidents. See
When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2001 Homicide
Data (Violence Policy Center: Washington DC, September
2003).
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