Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence
Recent studies have used homicide rates, police statistics, and crime victimization surveys to pinpoint violent areas. The author argues that these useful measures of crime, and violence underestimate certain types of violence (especially non-econo...
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ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION ADULT ABUSE AGGRESSION ANAL SEX ARMED CONFLICT CHILD ABUSE CHILD HEALTH CHILDHOOD CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONTRACEPTION CONVICTIONS CORRUPTION CRIME CRIME STATISTICS CRIME VICTIMIZATION CRIME VICTIMS CRIMES CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION MAKING DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRUG TRAFFICKING DRUG USE DRUGS ELDER ABUSE ETHICS FAMILY VIOLENCE FORMS OF VIOLENCE GANGS GENDER DISCRIMINATION HOMICIDE HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMED CONSENT INJURIES INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INTIMATE PARTNER INVESTIGATIONS ISOLATION LEISURE ACTIVITIES MARITAL STATUS MATERNAL MORTALITY MEDICAL SPECIALISTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY OFFENDERS OFFENSES PARAMILITARY FORCES PARTNER ABUSE PERSONALITY PHYSICAL ABUSE POLITICAL POWER PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC OPINION QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RAPE REFUGEES RELIGIOUS GROUPS REPRODUCTIVE DECISION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH METHODS RIGHTS OF THE CHILD RISK FACTORS SAFETY SEVERE VIOLENCE SEX SEXUAL ABUSE SEXUAL ASSAULT SEXUAL COERCION SEXUAL HARASSMENT SEXUAL RELATIONS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL FACTORS SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL STIGMA THEFT USE OF ALCOHOL VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN VIOLENCE RESEARCH VIOLENT CRIME |
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ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION ADULT ABUSE AGGRESSION ANAL SEX ARMED CONFLICT CHILD ABUSE CHILD HEALTH CHILDHOOD CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONTRACEPTION CONVICTIONS CORRUPTION CRIME CRIME STATISTICS CRIME VICTIMIZATION CRIME VICTIMS CRIMES CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION MAKING DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRUG TRAFFICKING DRUG USE DRUGS ELDER ABUSE ETHICS FAMILY VIOLENCE FORMS OF VIOLENCE GANGS GENDER DISCRIMINATION HOMICIDE HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMED CONSENT INJURIES INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INTIMATE PARTNER INVESTIGATIONS ISOLATION LEISURE ACTIVITIES MARITAL STATUS MATERNAL MORTALITY MEDICAL SPECIALISTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY OFFENDERS OFFENSES PARAMILITARY FORCES PARTNER ABUSE PERSONALITY PHYSICAL ABUSE POLITICAL POWER PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC OPINION QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RAPE REFUGEES RELIGIOUS GROUPS REPRODUCTIVE DECISION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH METHODS RIGHTS OF THE CHILD RISK FACTORS SAFETY SEVERE VIOLENCE SEX SEXUAL ABUSE SEXUAL ASSAULT SEXUAL COERCION SEXUAL HARASSMENT SEXUAL RELATIONS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL FACTORS SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL STIGMA THEFT USE OF ALCOHOL VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN VIOLENCE RESEARCH VIOLENT CRIME Shrader, Elizabeth Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence |
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Recent studies have used homicide rates,
police statistics, and crime victimization surveys to
pinpoint violent areas. The author argues that these useful
measures of crime, and violence underestimate certain types
of violence (especially non-economic violence) and key
dimensions of violence (especially age, and gender). A
composite index based on monitoring, and surveillance of
homicides, crime statistics, and victimization surveys can
provide invaluable "first round" snapshots of
urban violence - information to monitor crime trends, warn
against incipient crime waves, and indicate areas where more
in-depth "second round" studies are needed to
explore casualty, the impact of interventions, and public
opinion. But a composite index of municipally generated
information about trends, depends heavily on the quality of
the data collected, and will not explain why trends, or
changes occur. Other indicators are needed to strengthen
surveillance, and to facilitate the planning of
interventions, and evaluation. It would be helpful, for
example, to distinguish between social, economic, and
political violence, and to provide items on autopsy reports,
crime statistics, and victimization surveys to gain insight
into what motivates violence. Information useful for
analyzing causes of violence might include: 1) Individual:
socioeconomic data about victims, and perpetrators, and
information about their use of alcohol, drugs, or firearms.
2) Interpersonal: whether victim, and perpetrator belonged
to the same family, or household, had an affective
relationship, were acquaintances, or were strangers. 3)
Institutional: crime characteristics (physical injuries
sustained, weapons used, value of property lost, where crime
occurred); characteristics of victim, and perpetrator;
whether the crime was reported; per capita police, and
private security; presence of gangs in community; estimated
number of gangs and gang members; level of gang organization
(low, medium, high); and, other measures of social capital.
4) Structural: levels of impunity (number of convictions as
a ratio of number of arrests); levels of corruption; indices
of social exclusion, such as racism, gender discrimination,
or areas stigma; the dynamics between violence, and access
to (and control of) such resources as land, water, and
wealth. Crime mapping, to provide visual confirmation of
noted trends, might be combined with information about the
relative locations of battered women's shelters, police
stations, and the distribution of family violence in
residential areas. |
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Shrader, Elizabeth |
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Shrader, Elizabeth |
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Shrader, Elizabeth |
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Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence |
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Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence |
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Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence |
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Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence |
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Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence |
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methodologies to measure the gender dimensions of crime and violence |
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okr-10986-195902021-04-23T14:03:43Z Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence Shrader, Elizabeth ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION ADULT ABUSE AGGRESSION ANAL SEX ARMED CONFLICT CHILD ABUSE CHILD HEALTH CHILDHOOD CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONTRACEPTION CONVICTIONS CORRUPTION CRIME CRIME STATISTICS CRIME VICTIMIZATION CRIME VICTIMS CRIMES CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION MAKING DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRUG TRAFFICKING DRUG USE DRUGS ELDER ABUSE ETHICS FAMILY VIOLENCE FORMS OF VIOLENCE GANGS GENDER DISCRIMINATION HOMICIDE HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMED CONSENT INJURIES INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INTIMATE PARTNER INVESTIGATIONS ISOLATION LEISURE ACTIVITIES MARITAL STATUS MATERNAL MORTALITY MEDICAL SPECIALISTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY OFFENDERS OFFENSES PARAMILITARY FORCES PARTNER ABUSE PERSONALITY PHYSICAL ABUSE POLITICAL POWER PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC OPINION QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RAPE REFUGEES RELIGIOUS GROUPS REPRODUCTIVE DECISION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH METHODS RIGHTS OF THE CHILD RISK FACTORS SAFETY SEVERE VIOLENCE SEX SEXUAL ABUSE SEXUAL ASSAULT SEXUAL COERCION SEXUAL HARASSMENT SEXUAL RELATIONS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL FACTORS SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL STIGMA THEFT USE OF ALCOHOL VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN VIOLENCE RESEARCH VIOLENT CRIME Recent studies have used homicide rates, police statistics, and crime victimization surveys to pinpoint violent areas. The author argues that these useful measures of crime, and violence underestimate certain types of violence (especially non-economic violence) and key dimensions of violence (especially age, and gender). A composite index based on monitoring, and surveillance of homicides, crime statistics, and victimization surveys can provide invaluable "first round" snapshots of urban violence - information to monitor crime trends, warn against incipient crime waves, and indicate areas where more in-depth "second round" studies are needed to explore casualty, the impact of interventions, and public opinion. But a composite index of municipally generated information about trends, depends heavily on the quality of the data collected, and will not explain why trends, or changes occur. Other indicators are needed to strengthen surveillance, and to facilitate the planning of interventions, and evaluation. It would be helpful, for example, to distinguish between social, economic, and political violence, and to provide items on autopsy reports, crime statistics, and victimization surveys to gain insight into what motivates violence. Information useful for analyzing causes of violence might include: 1) Individual: socioeconomic data about victims, and perpetrators, and information about their use of alcohol, drugs, or firearms. 2) Interpersonal: whether victim, and perpetrator belonged to the same family, or household, had an affective relationship, were acquaintances, or were strangers. 3) Institutional: crime characteristics (physical injuries sustained, weapons used, value of property lost, where crime occurred); characteristics of victim, and perpetrator; whether the crime was reported; per capita police, and private security; presence of gangs in community; estimated number of gangs and gang members; level of gang organization (low, medium, high); and, other measures of social capital. 4) Structural: levels of impunity (number of convictions as a ratio of number of arrests); levels of corruption; indices of social exclusion, such as racism, gender discrimination, or areas stigma; the dynamics between violence, and access to (and control of) such resources as land, water, and wealth. Crime mapping, to provide visual confirmation of noted trends, might be combined with information about the relative locations of battered women's shelters, police stations, and the distribution of family violence in residential areas. 2014-08-21T19:40:17Z 2014-08-21T19:40:17Z 2001-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/1551985/methodologies-measure-gender-dimensions-crime-violence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19590 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2648 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean |