{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "In the past few years it has become alarmingly clear that\r\n women with disabilities are at an extremely high risk for emotional,\r\n sexual, and physical assault. The Developmental Disabilities Institute\r\n at Wayne State University, in collaboration with the United Cerebral\r\n Palsy Association in Michigan, conducted a one-year study to\r\n investigate the prevalence and correlates of, and service system\r\n capacity related to, domestic abuse among women with physical\r\n disabilities in Michigan. The study aimed to address the following\r\n research questions: (1) What is the prevalence of domestic violence\r\n among a sample of women with physical disabilities? (2) What potential\r\n factors for domestic violence exist among women with physical\r\n disabilities? and (3) What is the capacity of existing support\r\n programs (e.g., safe houses, shelters, and service agencies) to assist\r\n women with physical disabilities? The population for this study was\r\n women over the age of 18 who had physical disabilities. Consistent\r\n with the work of other researchers, physical disabilities in this\r\n study were defined as those disabilities that result in functional\r\n impairment, such as cerebral palsy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida,\r\n amputation, rheumatic conditions, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord\r\n injury, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment, hearing impairment,\r\n and stroke. A sample of 177 women was recruited through several\r\n mechanisms. To address the question of domestic abuse prevalence, the\r\n women participating in the study were first asked to complete a brief\r\n questionnaire addressing demographic characteristics and their\r\n experience with domestic violence (Part 1, Screening Interview\r\n Data). Fifty-six percent (100) of the 177 women interviewed indicated\r\n a positive history of abuse at their initial screening. In order to\r\n address the second research question about the correlates of abuse,\r\n this subsample of 100 women was invited and encouraged to participate\r\n in the second phase of the research, which involved a more extensive\r\n interview (Part 2, Abuse Interview Data). The interview used was based\r\n on a protocol developed by Nosek (1995) that addressed demographic\r\n characteristics, social networks, and abuse history. Variables in\r\n Parts 1 and 2 include type of disability, type of personal assistance\r\n needed, and whether the respondent was ever physically, emotionally,\r\n or sexually abused. Part 2 also contains variables on sources of monthly\r\n income, who perpetrated the abuse, the abuser's gender, how long the\r\n victim knew the abuser, whether the victim sought assistance from a\r\n domestic violence program or shelter, and a description of the worst\r\n incident of physical abuse. Demographic variables in Parts 1 and 2\r\ninclude ethnicity, age, employment status, and marital status.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03414.v1", "title": "Evaluation of Violence Against Women With Physical Disabilities in Michigan, 2000-2001"}], "identifier": "3586", "issued": "2002-11-22T00:00:00", "keyword": ["abuse", "assault", "battered women", "disabled persons", "domestic violence", "emotional abuse", "physical disabilities", "sexual abuse", "violence", "women", "womens shelters"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "Evaluation of Violence Against Women With Physical Disabilities in Michigan, 2000-2001"}