Domestic Violence Research Paper by Top Papers

The paper examines the study by Pearlman et al. on how women of color may experience domestic violence that is police-reported more than do Caucasian women (Pearlman, Zierler, Gjelsvik, & Verhoek-Oftedahl, 2003). The paper describes how the researchers conducted a study of low-income neighborhoods using a quantitative study; they utilized the 1990 U.S. census block group data, along with data from 1996 to 1998 from Rhode Island's domestic violence surveillance system. The paper relates that linear regression models were used to determine the average risk of police-reported domestic violence was the dependent variable.