Comparison of defendants charged, share prosecuted, and case dispositions for domestic violence and non-domestic violence cases in the U.S., with statistics on case characteristics and disposition types.

Dataset sheets:

• felony cases: felony sexual & aggravated assault cases initiated in 15 large US counties, May 2002
• all DV cases: all domestic violence cases initiated in 16 large US urban counties, May 2002
• dispositions: disposition of criminal family violence cases, January-June 1998, for studied cities

Related datasets:

• gender in criminal justice response to domestic violence
• homicides, suicides, occupational fatalities by sex and cause
• claims dataset: domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women