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Domestic Violence Abusers The Purpose Of The Essay

Domestic Violence Abusers The purpose of the study by Etter and Birzer was to characterize defendants in case of protection from abuse (PFA) orders in one Kansas county. The results of the study were published in a peer-reviewed journal. Both researchers are affiliated with universities and cited extensively from academic literature on this topic. As they pointed out, domestic violence is a widespread problem in the U.S., occurring every eighteen seconds (Paisner, 1989, cited in Etter and Birzer, 2007, p. 113) and across all socioeconomic classes and racial groups (Gilbert, 2001, cited in Etter and Birzer). A PFA order, unfortunately, does not necessarily stop the abuse.

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The study was descriptive in nature; the researchers wanted to examine general demographic characteristics of accused domestic violent offenders, review their arrest records, and determine whether there was a difference in the records of female vs. male abusers.
According to the study, accused abusers were overwhelmingly (80.8%) male. Most were white (72.7%) with a man age of 33.2 years. The study reviewed the records of 1,873 perpetrators of abuse, of both genders, and found that most had been arrested in the past for misdemeanor crimes. A…

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Etter, G.W., and Birzer, M.L. (2007). Domestic violence abusers: A descriptive study of the characteristics of defenders in protection from abuse orders in Sedgwick County, Kansas.

Journal of Family Violence 22(3), pp. 113-119.
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