 Another large study reveals that women are between two and three times as likely to be the offender in non-reciprocal partner violence.The study suggests that while women are far more prone to be the sole offender, reciprocal violence where both partners use violence has higher frequency of serious injuries, and that these injuries more often have female victims than male.A 2008 review published in the journal "Violence and Victims" found that although less serious situation violence or altercation was equal for both genders, more serious and violent abuse was perpetrated by men.