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Volume 341:1926-1929 December 16, 1999 Number 25
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Violence against Women — A Challenge to the Supreme Court

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This issue of the Journal includes two reports on risk factors for violent injuries to women. The findings of Kyriacou et al.1 and Grisso et al.,2 from case–control studies in hospital emergency rooms, are not surprising. But the public-policy implications deserve renewed attention as the Supreme Court considers whether to strike down the 1994 Violence against Women Act as unconstitutional.

Kyriacou et al. report that the chief risk factors for injuries to women as a result of domestic violence are alcohol or drug abuse by male partners and having a partner who is unemployed or intermittently employed. Grisso et al. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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