Journal
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages 2259-2285Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/10778012211025993
Keywords
nonfatal strangulation; domestic violence; text mining; police; intimate partner violence
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- Australian Institute of Criminology/Criminology Research Grant [34/15-16]
- National Drug Research Institute from the Australian Government Department of Health under the Drug and Alcohol Program
- Scientia PhD Scholarship
- Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through the University of New South Wales
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence
- NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund
- NHMRC
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Nonfatal strangulation is a common yet often unnoticed form of domestic violence, which may be a warning sign for future fatal incidents. Research indicates that nonfatal strangulation within intimate partner relationships exhibits gendered violence characteristics and is typically associated with other forms of abuse.
Nonfatal strangulation (NFS) is a common form of domestic violence (DV) that frequently leaves no visible signs of injury and can be a portent for future fatality. A validated text mining approach was used to analyze a police dataset of 182,949 DV events for the presence of NFS. Results confirmed NFS within intimate partner relationships is a gendered form of violence. The presence of injury and/or other (non-NFS) forms of physical abuse, emotional/verbal/social abuse, and the perpetrator threatening to kill the victim, were associated with significantly higher odds of NFS perpetration. Police data contain rich information that can be accessed using automated methodologies such as text mining to add to our understanding of this pressing public health issue.
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