| Domestic violence advocates frequently make claims that military intimate partner relationships are twice to five times more violent than civilian intimate partner relationships. This study uses a population of Circuit Court temporary restraining order files (TRO), and related civil and criminal cases, to examine this claim, as well as to determine the proportion of filed temporary restraining order petitions that involve intimate partners, both civilian dyads and military-related dyads. Military-related dyads were represented in the TRO files in proportion to the military-related population, suggesting these intimate partners are no more violent than civilian ones. Comparison of petitioners' allegations found military-related and civilian cases to be more similar than not. Two-thirds of TRO petitions filed involved intimate partner relationships. |
