Intimate violence gets female twist
By Bruce Bower
When violence erupts between spouses or dating partners, men have a reputation as perpetrators and women as victims.
An analysis of data on relationship violence in the general population now finds that, excluding murder and sexual assaults, women prove slightly more likely than men to commit one or more aggressive acts against a partner. Still, the data show that men are more likely than women to inflict injuries that require medical help, says psychologist John Archer of England’s University of Central Lancashire.