12.7 percent of admissions to Cook County Jail in 2011 were for domestic battery, or 9,108 in all.
Those admissions accounted for 44.3 percent of all admissions for violent crime.
The only category that outranked domestic battery was possession of controlled substances.
Those are arrests, not convictions, but the fact that arrests for domestic battery outrank every offense but drug possession is notable.
Last year, MSU professor Angie Kennedy and her colleagues surveyed "180 female high school students in a poor Chicago community," and came up with more startling findings:
85 percent witnessed domestic violence.
Half reported witnessing an injury to an adult in the home from domestic violence.
72 percent were abused.
(link below)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2013/Domestic-Violence-Leads-to-Violence-on-the-Streets/
Monday, May 20, 2013
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS COMMON IN CHICAGO
12.7 percent of admissions to Cook County Jail in 2011 were for domestic battery, or 9,108 in all.
Those admissions accounted for 44.3 percent of all admissions for violent crime.
The only category that outranked domestic battery was possession of controlled substances.
Those are arrests, not convictions, but the fact that arrests for domestic battery outrank every offense but drug possession is notable.
Last year, MSU professor Angie Kennedy and her colleagues surveyed "180 female high school students in a poor Chicago community," and came up with more startling findings:
85 percent witnessed domestic violence.
Half reported witnessing an injury to an adult in the home from domestic violence.
72 percent were abused.
(link below)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2013/Domestic-Violence-Leads-to-Violence-on-the-Streets/
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