Measuring violence to end violence: mainstreaming gender
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Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)
violence
gender
survey
Author
Walby, Sylvia
Towers, Jude
Date
2017Metadata
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This article aims to mainstream gender into the measurement of violence, in order to assist the
development of the theory of change needed to support actions to end violence. It addresses the
division between gender-neutral and women-only strategies of data collection that is failing to
deliver the quality evidence needed to address the extent and distribution of violence, developing
a better operationalisation of the concepts of gender and violence for statistical analysis, and
producing a checklist of criteria to assess the quality of statistics on gendered violence. It assesses
the strengths and weakness of surveys linked to two contrasting theoretical perspectives: the
Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) Survey of Violence Against Women and the Office for National
Statistics (ONS) Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). It shows how the FRA Survey fails
and how the ONS has limited the potential of the CSEW. It therefore offers a solution with a short
questionnaire that is fit for purpose as well as ways of analysing data that escape the current
polarisation.
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Walby, S., Towers, J. (2017) Measuring violence to end violence: mainstreaming gender, Journal of Gender-Based Violence, vol 1 no 1, 11–31, DOI: 10.1332/239868017X14913081639155
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