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Risk factors within rural areas include attitudes more tolerant of intimate partner violence.

Such violence is often more severe and ongoing in remote or rural areas, compared with urban areas.

Police collaboration with shelters and safe space for victims facilitate reporting.

Domestic violence occurs all over the world within every type of community. As a career prosecutor, I have dedicated the last 30 years to seeking justice for these victims and holding perpetrators accountable. Yet one of the biggest challenges involved in this area is detection. According to research, there are some types of populations and geographic areas that are more likely to conceal ongoing abuse. Because within relationships of physical abuse, the risk of serious injury or death can increase over time, the goal is to detect and intervene sooner rather than later.

Behind the Scenes of Seclusion

Susanne J. M. Strand and Jennifer E. Storey (2019) compared the severity of intimate partner violence as well as risk factors in urban, rural, and remote geographic locations by studying risk assessments conducted by Swedish police........

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