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Research findings from University of Pennsylvania update understanding of life sciences

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, April 30th, 2010

Data detailed in 'Intimate partner violence at the scene: incident characteristics and implications for public health surveillance' have been presented. "Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence (IPV) calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city," researchers in the United States report.

"Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents were considered a restraining order violation, although many orders were active in the city at the time," wrote M. Joshi and...

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