This document summarizes a study on spatio-temporal dimensions of rural family violence in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. The study had four main goals: 1) Identify hot spots of family violence, 2) Identify temporal trends, 3) Identify correlates of family violence from Census Data, and 4) Perform regression analysis on best correlates. Census data on factors like female-headed households with children and married households with children correlated with family violence. Analysis found more incidents occurred between 4pm-12am than other times. Issues included lack of modifiable socio-economic data and impact of including/excluding urban data.

1. Spatio-temporal Dimensions of
Rural Family Violence
Initial Observations from
Doña Ana County New
Mexico
Michael N. DeMers
Martha Roditti
Madeline Gillette
Zach Edwards

3. What’s Special About
Domestic Violence?

4. Spati About
What’s Special
al
Domestic Violence?

7. Demographic Factors

8. Relationship Factors

9. Personal Factors

10. Family Factors

11. Community Factors

12. GOALS
1.Identify hot spots of family violence
2.Identify temporal trends in family
violence
3.Identify correlates for family violence
from Census Data
4.Perform OLS Regression based on
best correlates

13. STUDY
AREA

19. Tabulate & Graph

21. Factor Selection
• Correlates for Family Violence
(2000 US Census)
• (FHH_CHILD) **
• (MARHH_CHD) **
• (MHH_CHILD)
• (HSEHLD) **
• (RENTER_OCC)

22. Regression
Modeling

23. RESULT
S

25. RURAL
ONLY
RURAL &
URBAN

28. 600
554
500
458
400 4:01am - 12:00pm
12:01pm - 8:00pm
300
8:01pm - 4:00am
209
200
100
0

30. Issues?
• Socio-economic variables not collected
by Census Bureau
• Modifiable Area Unit Problem
• Inclusion or exclusion of urban data
• skews hot spots and regression
• affects amount of data collected
• Temporal data – especially socio-
economic

31. And Another Major
Issue

32. Thank You
Questions?
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