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Coleman

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  • women were more likely than men to have experienced ‘intimate violence’ across all four types of abuse, partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking
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Dobash and Dobash

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  • argue that marriage legitimates violence against women by conferring power and authority on husbands and dependency on wives
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Dar

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  • it’s difficult to count separate domestic violence incidents because abuse may be continuous
  • victims of domestic violence are less likely than other victims to report
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Yearnshire (provides official statistics)

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  • on average, a woman suffers 35 assaults before making a report
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Cheal (regarding official statistics)

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  • explains the reluctance of police and prosecutors as them not being prepared to be involved in the family
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Elliot (provides evaluation of the radical feminist explanation)

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  • rejects the radical feminist claim that all men benefit from domestic violence and argue that not all men are aggressive and most are opposed to domestic violence
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Wilkinson (regarding the materialist explanation)

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  • see domestic violence as the result of stress on family members caused by social inequality

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