Saltzman L E, Mercy J A, Rhodes P H
National Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Am J Public Health. 1992 Jul;82(7):1018-20. doi: 10.2105/ajph.82.7.1018.
We examined different strategies for identifying nonfatal family and intimate assaults (FIAs) in police data. Police most often classify such incidents in the "assault" category, but they also use other crime categories. We estimated that, during 1984, 3300 FIAs (or 837 per 100,000 population) occurred in Atlanta. Of those, 77% were classified as assaults; 23% were classified in nonassault categories. Research measuring the magnitude of FIAs should take into account incidents classified in nonassault crime categories.
我们研究了在警方数据中识别非致命家庭及亲密关系袭击(FIA)的不同策略。警方通常将此类事件归类为“袭击”,但他们也会使用其他犯罪类别。我们估计,1984年亚特兰大发生了3300起FIA(即每10万人中有837起)。其中,77%被归类为袭击;23%被归类为非袭击类别。衡量FIA规模的研究应考虑归类于非袭击犯罪类别的事件。