This report examines the rate and response to intimate partner violence in 33 RCMP jurisdictions in<\/p>\n
British Columbia (BC) between January and December 2016, with an analysis of trends between<\/p>\n
2011 – 2015 . Several lines of inquiry were considered to better understand intimate partner<\/p>\n
violence. In particular, the contextual variances that differentiate not just one municipality from<\/p>\n
other, but also the different neighbourhoods within the same municipality, which vary significantly<\/p>\n
in terms of their levels of crime, was the focus on this study. In effect, to discuss intimate partner<\/p>\n
violence in a city as a whole may mask important variations across communities and<\/p>\n
neighbourhoods. Given what research has found in other cities, it is possible that the effects of<\/p>\n
socio-demographic and socio-economic factors vary more within cities than between cities. Given<\/p>\n
this, the focus of this report includes a) how several municipalities in each RCMP District compare<\/p>\n
to each other in terms of their rate, distribution, and response to intimate partner violence, and b)<\/p>\n
identifying the \u201cneighbourhood effects\u201d that also contribute to fluctuations in intimate partner<\/p>\n
violence within single municipalities. The overall purpose of this report is to examine intimate<\/p>\n
partner violence in RCMP jurisdictions and to provide a theoretical and empirical-based assessment<\/p>\n
of the socio-economic and socio-demographic variables that contribute to intimate partner<\/p>\n
violence.<\/p>\n