Objectives To present the prevalence of gun ownership among batterers and describe their self-reported use of guns to threaten intimate partners. Methods We used multivariate methods to analyze data from 8529 men enrolled in Massachusetts certified batterer...
Objective To compare the risk of death and the risk of nonfatal injury during firearm-associated family and intimate assaults (FIAs) with the risks during non-firearm-associated FIAs. Design Records review of police incident reports of FIAs that occurred in 1984....
Firearms play an important role in lethal domestic violence incidents. The authors review state laws regarding two policies to separate batterers from firearms: laws authorizing police to remove firearms when responding to a domestic violence complaint (“police...
Objectives We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time. Methods We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA,...
