Cross-national survey designs: Equating the national violence against women survey and swiss international violence against women survey

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 90-112

  Jaquier, Véronique ^a,b   Fisher, Bonnie S ^c,d   Killias, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d Division of Criminal Justice

Author keywords

Cross national; International Violence Against Women Survey; National Violence Against Women Survey; Rape; Survey methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645660022     PISSN: 10439862     EISSN: 15525406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043986206286969     Document Type: Article

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