Abstract

Occurrences of domestic violence spike on January 1st each year. The figure presents data showing the average number of occurrences of domestic violence in Calgary each day between December 22nd and January 10th, recorded from 2013 to 2017. Our focus is on occurrences of domestic violence that result in an intervention by police and satisfy a definition of criminal behavior used by Statistics Canada. These occurrences typically involve criminal offenses such as assault, criminal harassment, sexual offences, or homicide.

Details

Title
Social Policy Trends: Domestic Violence and the Holidays
Author
Kneebone, Ronald; Wilkins, Margarita
Section
Communiqués
Publication year
2018
Publication date
2018
Publisher
University of Calgary, The School of Public Policy
ISSN
25608320
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2199192208
Copyright
© 2018. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.