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Domestic Violence To determine what the public believed about domestic violence, the Public Policy Research Centre (PPRC) survey of community attitudes used a checklist of possible behaviours which might constitute domestic violence. Almost all respondents said that physical acts such as pushing, shoving, kicking and choking should be classified as domestic violence. A smaller but nonetheless substantial majority thought that smashing an object near one's wife or threatening to hit should be classified as domestic violence. However a clear distinction was evident between physical and other forms of behaviour. Only one quarter of respondents classed denial of money and under half verbal abuse as forms of domestic violence. One in four did not consider that a man frightening his wife could be classified as violence. The second study (ESR, 1988) sought the views of victims and of professionals working with victims on what they considered domestic violence to be. The...

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