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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Not All Domestic Violence Studies Are Created Equal By Jennifer L. Pozner Recent media responses to a Department of Justice (DOJ) study on domestic violence raise an interesting question: What makes some DOJ studies less "scientific" than others? How can the same agency at times be a bastion of impartial science, and at others be a purveyor of questionable, ideology-driven data? The answer can be found not in the sponsors or the methodology of the studies themselves, but in their results. It isn't hard to decipher the code: Researchers whose findings show that domestic violence is predominately perpetrated by men to exercise control over their female partners are often "feminist theorists" orchestrating a "myth-making industry" to promote "half-truths based on ideological dogma," as columnist Kathleen Parker wrote (Orlando Sentinel, 4/14/99, 6/27/99). Conversely, the handful of researchers whose studies find that battery is committed equally by men and women may be labeled as scientific "pioneers" pursuing hard facts and empirically sound data (USA Today news article, 7/26/99). One such "pioneer" in the "women batter too!" field is University of Wisconsin psychology professor Terrie Moffitt, who recently released a DOJ-sponsored study of a group of young people in Dunedin, New Zealand. She found that 37 percent of women, vs. 22 percent of men, self-reported shoving, shaking, hitting, slapping, kicking or otherwise striking their partners (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/170018.htm). To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1479 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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