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Priority Indicator
#11: Reported Incidence of Domestic Abuse
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Background
Information
What
Does This Indicator Mean?
This indicator measures the number
of reported crimes that occurred within the context of a domestic
disturbance. Crimes include simple assault, vandalism,
aggravated assault, rape, homicide, burglary, trespass, and other
crimes. For a certain geographic region, the rate of
incidence of domestic disturbance is calculated as the number of
incidents reported divided by the total population of the region,
multiplied by 1,000.
Other Risk Factors or Indicators to
Consider
According to the National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence, women, children, and the elderly are the
most common victims of domestic abuse. Abuse or battering may
include physical abuse, emotional
abuse, economic abuse, sexual abuse, using children, threats, using
male privilege, isolation from friends and family, excessive
possessiveness, destruction of personal property, and a variety of
other behaviors used to maintain fear, intimidation and power.
Some behavioral warning signs of a potential batterer include
extreme jealousy, possessiveness, a bad temper, unpredictability,
cruelty to animals and verbal abusiveness.
Limitations of the Data
Currently local police departments do not record the relationship of
the victim to the offender, and so this indicator could include
crimes committed against a sibling, parent, child, or other
relation, in addition to crimes against a spouse. Also, local
police departments only began collecting data on domestic abuse in
about 1994, and so some of the variation in abuse rates may be
explained by a lack of uniform reporting procedures.
Data Sources
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Oregon Law Enforcement Data
System (LEDS)
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Population data from U.S. Bureau of the Census
Presentation
and Description of Data
The table below shows the rate
of incidence of domestic abuse per 1,000 people. It gives
rates for places in Marion and Polk Counties, and a total rate for
each county.
| |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
| Marion County |
6.0 |
5.2 |
3.3 |
5.3 |
4.9 |
| Polk County |
2.1 |
2.4 |
1.7 |
2.4 |
2.7 |
|
Places in Marion
County
|
| Aumsville |
11.7 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
0.7 |
0.7 |
| Aurora |
4.3 |
4.3 |
0.0 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
| Gervais |
0.0 |
8.8 |
2.6 |
1.5 |
5.3 |
| Hubbard |
3.8 |
3.8 |
0.5 |
3.6 |
8.0 |
| Jefferson |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| Keizer |
3.5 |
3.0 |
2.4 |
2.7 |
3.6 |
| Mt. Angel |
6.1 |
5.1 |
2.4 |
2.2 |
3.8 |
| Rural Marion County |
1.2 |
1.6 |
0.8 |
1.4 |
|
| Salem |
8.5 |
6.9 |
4.7 |
7.9 |
7.7 |
| Silverton |
6.1 |
12.4 |
4.1 |
8.8 |
7.0 |
| Stayton |
12.2 |
6.9 |
6.6 |
6.0 |
4.2 |
| Turner |
1.5 |
1.5 |
0.7 |
5.8 |
13.4 |
| Woodburn |
9.3 |
8.2 |
4.3 |
4.9 |
1.9 |
|
Places in Polk
County
|
| Dallas |
0.4 |
0.2 |
0.4 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
| Independence |
7.1 |
4.9 |
3.8 |
4.3 |
5.8 |
| Monmouth |
3.6 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
2.2 |
2.1 |
| Rural Polk County |
3.1 |
1.0 |
0.6 |
0.0 |
|
| Salem (Polk) |
0.1 |
6.0 |
3.7 |
5.3 |
|
Source: Oregon Law Enforcement Data
System, compiled by Marion-Polk CHIP.
http://www.willamette.edu/publicpolicy/chip
The
chart below shows the rate of crimes occurring within the context of a
domestic disturbance per 1,000 people in Marion and Polk
Counties.
The
chart below shows the rate of domestic abuse per 1,000 people in
places in Marion and Polk Counties. It gives the rate for each
place in 1998 and 2000.
Commentary
The rate of domestic abuse was higher in Marion
County than Polk County for all years in 1997-2000. The rate
dropped in both counties in 1999 and returned in 2000 to approximately
the same level as 1998. For most cities in Marion and Polk
Counties, the rate of domestic abuse was lower in 2000 than in
1998. Cities that experienced an increase in the rate of
domestic abuse were Salem, Turner, Dallas, and Monmouth.
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