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Findings of the 2013 NCAS on attitudes towards
violence against women
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1995
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2009
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2013
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Circumstances in which
violence towards a current/former partner can be justified (% agree)
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Partner admits to sex with
another man
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6
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5
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6
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Partner makes him look
stupid or insults him in front of his friends
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n/a
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3
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5**
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Partner ends or tries to
end relationship
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n/a
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3
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4
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Against ex-partner to get
access to children
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n/a
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4
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4
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If ex-partner is unreasonable
about property settlement and financial issues
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n/a
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2
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4**
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Attitudes excusing violence (% agree)
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Rape results from men not
able to control their need for sex
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n/a
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35
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43**
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A man is less responsible
for rape if drunk/affect by drugs at the time
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n/a
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8
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9
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Domestic violence can be
excused if people get so angry they lost control
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n/a
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20
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22
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Domestic violence can be
excused if the violent person regrets it
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n/a
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25
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21**
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Domestic violence can be
excused if the violent person was abused as a child
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n/a
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n/a
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12
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Domestic violence can be
excused if the violent person is under a lot of stress
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n/a
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n/a
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12
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Domestic violence can be
excused if the offender is heavily affected by alcohol
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n/a
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8
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9
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Attitudes trivialising violence (% agree)
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Where one partner is
violent it's reasonable for them to be made to leave the family home
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n/a
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90
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89
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It's hard to understand why
women stay
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77
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82
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78**
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Most women could leave a
violence relationship if they really wanted to
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n/a
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54
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51
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Women who are sexually harassed
should sort it out themselves
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20
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13
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12#
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Domestic violence is a
private matter to be handled in the family
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18
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14
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17**
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It's a women's duty to stay
in a violent relationship to keep the family together
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n/a
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8
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9
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Attitudes minimising violence
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Violence against women is a
serious issue
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n/a
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96
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95
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Certain behaviours are serious (% agree)
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Slaps/pushes to cause
harm/fear
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93
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92
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92
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Forces partner to have sex
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95
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96
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96
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Tries to scare/control by
threatening to hurt others
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n/a
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97
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97
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Throws/smashes objects to
frighten/threaten
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87
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94
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93#
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Repeated criticises to make
partner feel bad/useless
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72
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84
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85#
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Controls social life by
preventing partner seeing family and friends
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84
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85
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87#
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Tries to control by denying
partner money
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77
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75
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74#
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Yells abuse at partner
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70
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79
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n/a
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Stalking by repeatedly
following/watching at home or work
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n/a
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96
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94
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Harassment by repeated
phone calls
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n/a
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92
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90
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Harassment by repeated
emails, text messages
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n/a
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86
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86
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Seriousness/acceptability of tracking a female
partner by electronic means without their consent (% agree)
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Serious
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n/a
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n/a
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85
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Never acceptable
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n/a
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n/a
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61
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Attitudes towards false allegations of partner
violence and rape (% agree)
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Women going through custody
battles often make up or exaggerate claims of domestic violence in order to
improve their case
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n/a
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51
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53
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Women rarely make false
claims of rape
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59
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60
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59
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A lot of times women who
say they were raped led the man on and later had regrets
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n/a
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n/a
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38
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If a woman doesn't
physically resist – even if protesting verbally – then it isn't really rape
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n/a
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n/a
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10
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Attitudes shifting blame from perpetrator to victim
(% agree)
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If a woman is raped while
drunk/ affect by drugs she is at least partly responsible
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n/a
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18
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19
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Women often say 'no' when
they mean 'yes'
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18
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14
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16
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If a woman goes to a room
alone with a man at a party, it is her fault if she is raped
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n/a
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n/a
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12
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Domestic violence can be
excused if the victim is heavily affected by alcohol
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n/a
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9
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11
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