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Women Victims of Violent Partners: The Italian Situation Amid Culture and Psychopathology
Author(s) -
Carabellese Felice,
Tamma Manuela,
Tegola Donatella,
Candelli Chiara,
Catanesi Roberto
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/1556-4029.12347
Subject(s) - homicide , telephone survey , psychopathology , poison control , suicide prevention , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , psychology , human factors and ergonomics , demography , medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency , sociology , pathology , marketing , business
Abstract In 2006, the Italian National Institute of Statistics ( ISTAT ) conducted a survey over the entire national territory of women victims of sexual, physical, and psychologic violence, a few years after the first survey, conducted in 2002. For the 2002 survey, respondents were 60,000 women, 22,759 of whom were aged 14–59 years. For the 2006 survey, the sample consisted of 25,000 women aged 16–70 years. Owing to the sensitivity of the issues, the telephone survey technique seems best suited because it provides more anonymity and guarantee of protection. The survey showed that the phenomenon of violence against women is most commonly perpetrated by the partner or ex‐partner, even in cases of homicide. A comparison of the Italian data with those of the U.S.A. for the period 2001–2006 showed a specificity of Intimate Partner Violence in Italy, that seems to be related to cultural elements and psychologic and psychopathologic factors.