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  • Over-Reporting Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Survey Research

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    Ackerman, Jeffrey
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    Ackerman, Jeffrey
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    This research, inspired by the cognitive interviewing literature, investigates misreporting of intimate partner violence when survey participants interpret items in unintended ways. In over 23 per cent of victimizations reported by university-aged males and in over 12 per cent of victimizations reported by females, follow-up questions revealed that purported violence was either accidental or done in a manner where neither partner took the event seriously. The problem was worse for perpetration reports where over 47 per cent of male reports and over 17 per cent of female reports were endorsed in a manner unintended by instrument ...
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    This research, inspired by the cognitive interviewing literature, investigates misreporting of intimate partner violence when survey participants interpret items in unintended ways. In over 23 per cent of victimizations reported by university-aged males and in over 12 per cent of victimizations reported by females, follow-up questions revealed that purported violence was either accidental or done in a manner where neither partner took the event seriously. The problem was worse for perpetration reports where over 47 per cent of male reports and over 17 per cent of female reports were endorsed in a manner unintended by instrument design. The magnitude of the problem, together with its gendered nature, suggests that misreporting of this type is a substantial problem having the potential to negatively affect the testing of partner-violence theories.
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    Journal Title
    British Journal of Criminology
    Volume
    56
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv066
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    © 2016 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Over-Reporting Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Survey Research, British Journal of Criminology, Volume 56, Issue 4, 1 July 2016 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv066
    Subject
    International and comparative law
    Criminology
    Criminological theories
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/125179
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