The study analyzed victim-reported behaviors, perceptions, and experiences in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Omaha, Nebraska. The victim's marital status, employment, and family influence her ability to control revictimization and social structural explanations of domestic violence account for differences observed across cities. Police intervention influences victim perceptions and recidivistic domestic violence. The victim is likely to feel better about herself and her ability to protect herself following police intervention. Police intervention can influence what the victim experiences after the police leave the scene. It also appears that police intervention, at the aggregate level, can escalate violence. The study proposes that future research attempt to document, at an urban level of analysis, a social structural explanation for variation in domestic violence and recidivistic violence across cities. Such research would be focused on sociodemographic profiles, socioeconomic status, race and ethnic composition, and employment and occupational factors. Notes, tables, references