Establishing the Content Validity of Threats, Physical Violence and Rape Against Women Across Two National Surveys

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• The authors are very grateful to Professor Martin Killias, coordinator of the Swiss component of the International Violence Against Women Survey, for sharing the Swiss data and his expertise. The authors would also like to thank Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes for making the National Violence Against Women Survey data publicly available and Megan Stewart for her comments. The authors would like to thank the four anonymous reviewers for the quality of their comments; all were helpful in guiding our thinking and revisions.
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• Contact information: Véronique Jaquier, PhD, University of Lausanne, Ecole des sciences criminelles, Batochime, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Email: [email protected].
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• Contact information: Bonnie S. Fisher, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, PO BOX 210389, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221–0389, USA. Email: [email protected].
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