Based on a study sample of 2,702 reports of violence in 3 police regions in the Netherlands for the year 2002, this report presents the findings from this study on domestic and public violence in the Netherlands. Comprised of three parts, the study attempted to describe violence and the perpetrators of violence. The first part portrayed the nature and scope of domestic and public violence registered with the police in the Netherlands in 2002. The second part concerned the replication of a 1998 study of violence committed against strangers in the street in order to obtain a picture over a longer period of the developments in street violence. In the third and final part, the extent of the overlap between the group that perpetrates public violence and the group that perpetrates domestic violence was discovered. This answers the question as to whether a generic approach to tackling violence is advisable or a specific approach to domestic violence. The study also revealed that other aspects, such as an antisocial lifestyle, the presence of an addiction, a personality disorder, or serious pathological abnormalities are also major factors that need to be taken into consideration when prosecuting violence.