Separation and men's violence against women

Questionnaire 2 was sent after 6 months to those women who expressed interest in participating further via Questionnaire 1. The questionnaires are designed to cover different periods of the relationship and separation. They include questions about the man's behavior in certain situations, for example during discussions about joint children or assets, how conflicts have been handled, physical, psychological and sexual violence and the relationship as a whole.

The results of the study show that 60 percent of the women respondents have at some point been subjected to physical violence by the man they separated from. One purpose of the study is to investigate whether it is possible to predict the risk of violence after a separation. The study shows that the risk assessment model, to assess how great the risk is that the woman will be subjected to violence even after the separation, which is used by staff at women's shelters and crime victim shelters, is preferable to the police's way of working.

It also shows that negotiations in family law are affected if the man has used violence. It often turns out that the woman lowers her demands, for example regarding custody of joint children, if the man has used violence against her. Purpose: To investigate the extent of men's violence against women in connection with and after separations, separation violence, in order to be able to say something about the risk of violence that women who are considering leaving a heterosexual relationship face.