Domestic Violence
This report summarizes a survey filled out by twenty-five individuals in the legal system. The objective of the questionnaire was to determine the age and gender of a domestic violence respondent. The thesis was that males are more likely to be the respondent of a domestic violence call then females. Of those males, the survey was also to prove that the approximate age of the respondents would generally fall between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven.
The survey's first question asked five judges, ten policemen and five court staff personnel which gender, men or women, would they consider the more aggressive or respondents in a domestic dispute. A total of eighteen individuals answered that males would be the respondents in a domestic dispute. The eighteen were...
Two court staff personnel felt women would be the Respondents.
The second question focused on the age breakdown in regard to the respondents of a domestic dispute. The legal personnel answered the survey to find out if they felt the respondents would fall into these age ranges: 13 -17, 18 -- 20, 21 -- 27, 28 -- 35, 35- 40 and other. The final tally showed that fourteen, (three judges, nine policeman, and two court staff personnel) felt the age range would fall into the grouping of twenty-one to twenty-seven years of age. Three court staff personnel felt that the age range would be twenty-eight to thirty-five. One judge, one policeman and one court staff personnel thought the age range would be other than the provided…
