Opinion: Your image of a domestic-violence offender likely wrong

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'What does a domestic-violence offender look like? That's an easy one. He may be lying around the house half-drunk even now, while his victim is out working. He probably blames his unemployment on his criminal record. You know this guy's been in trouble with the law before.

Coming up in October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and one of our few consolations in facing this widespread social problem is that we have a pretty good idea of who the offenders are.
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The real-life data aren't very kind to the stereotype.

For one thing, more than 1,000 of these guys don't fit the model because they're not guys. Almost exactly 20 percent, or one in five domestic-violence suspects, were women. This agrees with other research findings. But it's also true that frustrated police officers, unable to identify the main aggressor in a domestic fight, sometimes take both parties in.'