Domestic Violence: The Untold Story

摘要

This article highlights the problem of domestic violence and explanatory variables heretofore not fully addressed in the literature. It focuses on one urban area Chicago with an identifiable inner-city population. Risk factors for domestic violence are hypothesized. The article presents research involving regression analysis of data for the city of Chicago. Results indicate that domestic violence in this sample is impacted by teen births, demographics such as depopulation of the inner city, patterns of racial and ethnic segregation, but chiefly the effects of concentrated poverty.