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justice. Sex Roles, 35, 507-519. (Subjects <109 men, 111 women>
from Adelaide, South Australia, were presented a hypothetical scenario
in which either a husband or wife perpetrated domestic violence. Participants
were significantly more negative in their evaluation of the husband than
the wife, were more sympathetic to the wife and believed that the husband
deserved a harsher penalty for his behavior.)
Headey, B., Scott, D., & de Vaus, D. (1999). Domestic violence in
Australia: Are women and men equally violent? Data from the International
Social Science Survey/ Australia 1996/97 was examined. A sample of 1643
subjects (804 men, 839 women) responded to questions about their experience
with domestic violence in the past 12 months. Results reveal that 5.7% of
men and 3.7% of women reported being victims of domestic assaults. With
regard to injuries results reveal that women inflict serious injuries at
least as frequently as men. For example 1.8% of men and 1.2% of women reported
that their injuries required first aid, while 1.5% of men and 1.1% of women
reported that their injuries needed treatment by a doctor or nurse.
Lewis, A. & Sarantakos, S. (2001). Domestic Violence and the male
victim. Nuance, #3. (Based on interviews with 48 men in Australia and New
Zealand, authors present findings that domestic violence by women toward
men exists, that the refusal to examine the prevalence of this abuse is
a "disempowerment" of men and that official policy should be changed
to provide help for abused men.)
Sarantakos, S. (2004). Deconstructing self-defense in wife-to-husband
violence. Journal of Men's Studies, 12 (3), 277-296. (Members of 68 families
with violent wives in Australia were studied. In 78% of cases wives' violence
was reported to be moderate to severe and in 38% of cases husbands needed
medical attention. Using information from husbands, wives, children and
wives' mothers study provides compelling data challenging self defense as
a motive for female-to-male violence.)
Stockdale, G. L. (1998). Men's Accounts of Domestic Violence. Unpublished
master's thesis. Deakin University, Australia. (Twenty male victims of domestic
violence were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol. Many subjects
incurred sever physical violence and were "mostly disturbed by false
accusations of violence on their part, and their partner's use of their
children against the, which they felt were supported by the legal system
and the community.")