Domestic violence and homicide: fuzzy similarity measures

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the fuzzy similarity measures of the U. S. state rankings with respect to domestic violence, female homicide, and sexual violence against teens. We find that the fuzzy similarity measures are low. We then consider the best state rankings and determine the fuzzy similarity measures of this ranking a with the previous three rankings. We also develop some theoretical results concerning fuzzy similarity measures.

Keywords

• domestic violence
• female homicide
• sexual violence against teenagers
• state rankings
• fuzzy similarity measures