Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Through the Lens of Cost-Benefit
A Manual for Domestic Violence Prevention Practitioners
(and the State and Local Policy-Makers They Present to)
Overview Of This Chapter (7)
As many readers are aware, studies reporting the extent of violence against women vary in their methods and findings. This chapter will present some useful sources of national and California-based data related to the cost of intimate partner violence; highlight some of the challenges in obtaining meaningful and relevant statistics; and share ideas for collecting and estimating local data.