Information has been gathered from the National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative website. The National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative provides technical assistance force death review Teams both in the United States and internationally. They also collect reports for several municipalities. Santa Clara County’s Domestic Violence Death Review Team providers their annual reports to be posted on the website. These reports are the primary source of the statistical data for Santa Clara County used in this study. The reports do not provide any information about any other municipalities.
Domestic violence death trends for the United States was gathered on the Bureau of Justice website. The information provided does not detail the information to at any level of granularity other than the federal level. Additionally, information was only available from 1976 – 2005. Death trends for the state of California were unavailable. The California Attorney General does however provide the number of domestic violence calls for assistance that was used for this study. There was available additional data from various sources, this data however was not used as it did not correspond to Santa Clara Counties collected data either in figures or in years.
When the National Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994, guidelines were not provided on the gathering of statistical data was …show more content…
The survey leveraged random digit dial in calling individuals to ask them question regarding domestic violence. Many recognize that there may be flaws in the way that this data was gathered, but even with a high level of variation, the evidence is enough to show that there is a need for stronger data reporting on domestic
Domestic violence death trends for the United States was gathered on the Bureau of Justice website. The information provided does not detail the information to at any level of granularity other than the federal level. Additionally, information was only available from 1976 – 2005. Death trends for the state of California were unavailable. The California Attorney General does however provide the number of domestic violence calls for assistance that was used for this study. There was available additional data from various sources, this data however was not used as it did not correspond to Santa Clara Counties collected data either in figures or in years.
When the National Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994, guidelines were not provided on the gathering of statistical data was …show more content…
The survey leveraged random digit dial in calling individuals to ask them question regarding domestic violence. Many recognize that there may be flaws in the way that this data was gathered, but even with a high level of variation, the evidence is enough to show that there is a need for stronger data reporting on domestic