Groundbreaking Domestic Violence Study

Massachusetts News ^ | September 6, 2002 | Ed Oliver

[A. Pole]

Westminster Man's Groundbreaking Domestic Violence Study To Get Exposure

By Ed Oliver
September 6, 2002

A groundbreaking study of Restraining Orders by a Westminster man shatters feminist myths about domestic violence. The findings will be presented at a major family violence conference in California this month and is scheduled to be published in a future edition of the Journal of Family Violence.

Steve Basile, 41, tells Massachusetts News that few people have attempted to conduct this type of politically incorrect research before, and he is glad that future authors and researchers will be able to use his data to begin to correct the falsehoods that permeate conventional wisdom about domestic violence.

Basile spent four years studying nearly 400 Restraining Orders issued by Gardner District Court in 1997.

The first phase of the study examined the degree of the abuse and/or violence allegedly perpetrated by both male and female defendants in 209A restraining order cases.

Basile found that female defendants were just as abusive as male defendants in terms of both physical and psychological aggression.

The results fly in the face of feminist orthodoxy on which the domestic violence industry has been built.

"Domestic violence is time and time again painted exclusively as something male batterers do to their innocent female victims," said Basile. "Our laws, policies and practices unfortunately reflect this myth."

The second phase examined the court's response to requests for protection. The results showed that despite the gender-neutral language in the law, the court's response highly favored the female plaintiffs.

Basile's research has withstood review by an academic journal, but it will be more than a year before it gets published. He told Massachusetts News that in order to get his results into the mainstream more quickly, he will present his papers at the 2002 Family Violence Conference in San Diego, CA on September 27.

The conference attendees will include a spectrum of the domestic violence industry, such as social workers, psychologists, nurses, military personnel, attorneys, law enforcement, researchers, advocates, marriage & family therapists, policy-makers, physicians, shelter & crisis center staff, survivors, etc.

Basile's research initiative gained notoriety in March 1999 after Jane Doe, Inc, a feminist "battered women's" advocacy organization, lobbied key legislators to stop the research. Attorney General Thomas Reilly filed legislation designed to pull all contact information found on 209A restraining orders out of the public domain, making domestic violence surveys nearly impossible for those researchers who lacked special access to victims. However, victims already had the power to keep their information secret if they chose ("impounding the file") by simply checking a checkbox on the 209A request form.

The bill is now law and Basile says it will most likely have a chilling effect on the type of research that can be conducted by those researchers who question current law and policy.

[I still care]

I don't know - I think woman CAN be just as aggressive as men with domestic violence ( I know a lot of women who have whacked their men - I had an acqaintance once who stabbed her husband in the shoulder with a fork at a family dinner - amazing.)

But I do think when a man beats up a woman, for sheer physical strength he is a lot more likely to do a greater amount of damage. And the previous is the only serious injury from woman to man I personally ever heard of, while I know quite a few women who were badly beaten by their husbands, and a few had to leave to save their lives.

[goodieD]

Women can be even more violent than men..and there are plenty of small statured men out there who can attest to just how physically strong a woman can be. And I've never heard a man talk the way I've heard females talk about their revenge fantasies.. not that men don't have them, but the sheer brutality of the womens talk far surpasses anything I've ever heard from a man. I'm glad this research is seeing the light of day.. it's about time the truth came out.

[MrB]

...lobbied key legislators to stop the research

There should be no social research that should be blocked. This just shows that the people pushing blocking research know that what they've been advocating is a lie.

Now, public funding for social agenda based research should be thoroughly curtailed. But privately funded research should also not be interfered with by the force of law.

[Orangedog]

The conference attendees will include a spectrum of the domestic violence industry, such as social workers, psychologists, nurses, military personnel, attorneys, law enforcement, researchers, advocates, marriage & family therapists, policy-makers, physicians, shelter & crisis center staff, survivors, etc.

Here is the part that most people miss. This isn't just bad legislation, IT'S AN INDUSTRY! Look at all of the people who make a living by things like this being perpetuated. The one's who are not government employees usually operate either with federal funding or are funded by some person or group that congress or the courts have ordered to pay for it. Riddle me this...excluding the military, what part of the federal government has ever had it's headcount or funding (in real dollars, not fuzzy math) reduced? I can't think of any. For instance, take the "family courts." Look at all of the public and private sector jobs that depend on the misery of caused by divorce and bitter custody battles. They should be more appropriately named the "anti-family courts" since they almost always destroy any families that come in contact with them.

It is NEVER reall about helping people...it's about to things...money and control. Take those two items out of the equation and all of the so-called caring people in the industry will go find something else to do for a living.

[FreeTally]

It is NEVER reall about helping people...it's about to things...money and control. Take those two items out of the equation and all of the so-called caring people in the industry will go find something else to do for a living.

YEP!

Its funny how people tend to stop caring when the money and control is taken away.

[balrog666]

Thought this would amuse you.

[A. Pole]

But I do think when a man beats up a woman, for sheer physical strength he is a lot more likely to do a greater amount of damage.

You forgot that women can use tools like knives for example. The second factor is that men are very hesitant to brag about being attacked by a wife or girlfriend and they are not eager to formally complain.

[ijcr]

Many people do not grasp the repercussions of an R.O.

Firstly, they are filed without a hearing from both parties....wide open to abuse by an aggrieved party.

Secondly, the R. O. immediately deprives the other party from access to their home,posessions,vehicles,bank accounts, stock certificates,records,etc. The cited party has to call a police officer to escort them into their home and they are only allowed to garner a set of clothes and toilet articles.

Thirdly a R.O. deprives the named party from any contact with their children.

Fourthly, the R.O. demands that the named party surrender all firearms.

Finally the R.O. declares the named party guilty without a court hearing and is often used as a vehicle of vengence and asset stripping.

Let me give you an example I dealt with recently, a friend went to work a few Fridays ago , as he returned home he was stopped by the police and served the R.O, taken out by his wife that afternoon and signed by the judge at 4.30 pm.His wife was having an affair and stated that he appeared threatening one day a few months ago as he questioned her whereabouts.He could not go home, he could not see his children,by Monday his wife had cleaned his accounts and sold his stockholdings, by Tuesday her boyfriend had moved into his house, by Wednesday his mortgage payment was due,and so on,it took four weeks before a hearing before the Judge, who reversed her decision...too late, he was already ruined.

My experience the R.O. is abused beyond belief.

[frodolives]

It's really not groundbreaking. If one goes beyond headlines, sound bites, and slogans to actually explore the dynamics of domestic battery, most reasoned studies show it's not at all Woman=good man=bad. There are numerous identified "relationship patterns" that result in violence- the controlling, abusive dominant male is just one. There's also "situational" batterers, who hit only when drunk, there's "assentive" batterers, co-combatants who think hitting is OK if it's "within the rules" e.g, no hitting from behind, no hitting with objects, (Think O.J. and Nichole), there's batterers who believe it's OK to damage property but not people, many different patterns that make it more likely that certain people will start hitting. The "cycle of abuse" concept is not universal to all battery situations.

More to the point is the clear misuse of the entire process- perfectly safe litigants who misuse DVRO's for stategic advantage- he can't very well keep the stuff in the house if he can't get in! tee hee. And THAT is abuse.

[A. Pole]

He could not go home, he could not see his children,by Monday his wife had cleaned his accounts and sold his stockholdings, by Tuesday her boyfriend had moved into his house, by Wednesday his mortgage payment was due,and so on,it took four weeks before a hearing before the Judge, who reversed her decision...too late, he was already ruined.

I also know similar cases. The present situation is extremely corrupting for women. It gives them power to steal and attack with impunity, giving them privileged victim status. On the other hand honest women can be punished, harassed, imprisoned and having their children confiscated if they refuse to go along with feminist agenda. See: Heidi reluctantly agreed to get a restraining order so DSS wouldn’t take her children.

[skeeter]

It gives no man worthy of the name any excuse to belt someone.

How did you read this into the article?

[BearCub]

Let me give you an example I dealt with recently, a friend went to work a few Fridays ago , as he returned home he was stopped by the police and served the R.O, taken out by his wife that afternoon and signed by the judge at 4.30 pm.His wife was having an affair and stated that he appeared threatening one day a few months ago as he questioned her whereabouts.He could not go home, he could not see his children,by Monday his wife had cleaned his accounts and sold his stockholdings, by Tuesday her boyfriend had moved into his house, by Wednesday his mortgage payment was due,and so on,it took four weeks before a hearing before the Judge, who reversed her decision...too late, he was already ruined.

Which is why all married men should have a large 'slush fund' that only they have access to. The only person that should know about it is their lawyer (in case they die). As sad as it is, 'til death do us part' is only true about half the time. Of course nobody thinks they'll ever get divorced when they get married - that's why men are so unprepared and these ROs are so effective.

Since men always play on an uneven field in family court it's especially important for men, at the first sign of domestic trouble (e.g., knows wife is cheating), to strike first and establish temporary orders in their own favor. Kick her out of the house and maintain control of the home, finances and children.

[VRW Conspirator]

It is NEVER reall about helping people...it's about to things...money and control. Take those two items out of the equation and all of the so-called caring people in the industry will go find something else to do for a living.

I have said it for years, DEFUND THE LEFT. This should be the Republican Congress's top priority.

[Doctor Stochastic]

This is one of the problems with having most research funded by the government; there is too much political pressure.

It's clear that Jane Doe, Inc. has no scientific rebuttal and thus must turn to the legislature.

[Rebelbase]

Ditto #10. I've seen it happen too many times before.

IMO, WOMEN WITH NO MORAL VALUE FREQUENTLY FILE BOGUS RESTRAINING ORDERS TO GAIN AN UPPER HAND IN A DIVORCE SITUATION....HAPPENS DAY IN DAY OUT IN AMERICA.

[hinckley buzzard]

Women are more likely to use a weapon, and men are more likely not to report being assaulted.
And if the man is injured severely enough to seek medical attention he is more likely to deny the domestic violence and offer a benign explanation.

Together with abortion, the domestic violence racket has relied on deliberate outright fraud.

This is why "feminists" could drop to their knees in front of a violent rapist: they knew full well they had betrayed their own integrity long ago, and were fundamentally no better than he.

[RogerFGay]

Most of the people he'll be presenting too already know that women are at least as abusive as men. It's always been that way. Research over the generations has always confirmed that it's that way. The feminist propaganda has always been at odds with the known truth on this one, and anyone with any knowledge of reality (family therapists, etc.) already know -- it won't be shocking to them.

[Puppage]

What do you tell a woman with 2 black eyes??? Nothing, you've told her twice already.