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85% of domestic violence victims are women.
One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. 85% of domestic violence victims are women. |
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Most cases are never reported to police.
Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.
Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence. Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police. |
Do you know someone who is involved in a domestic violence relationship?
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATISTICS:
CHILDREN WHO WITNESS -
Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.
Girls who witness domestic violence are more likely to become a victim of abuse by their partners, thus repeating the cycle of abuse. 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household. HOMICIDE AND INJURY -
Almost one-third of female homicide victims that are reported in police records are killed by an intimate
partner. In 70-80% of intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the murder. Less than one-fifth of victims reporting an injury from intimate partner violence sought medical treatment following the injury. Intimate partner violence results in more than 18.5 million mental health care visits each year. ECONOMIC IMPACT -
The cost of intimate partner violence exceeds $5.8 billion each year, $4.1 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health services.
Victims of intimate partner violence lost almost 8 million days of paid work because of the violence perpetrated against them by current or former husbands, boyfriends and dates. This loss is the equivalent of more than 2,000 full-time jobs and almost 5.6 million days of household productivity as a result of violence. There are 16,800 homicides and $2.2 million (medically treated) injuries due to intimate partner violence annually, which costs $37 billion. |
PROTECTION ORDERS -
Approximately 20% of the 1.5 million people who experience intimate partner violence annually obtain civil protection orders.
Approximately one-half of the orders obtained by women against intimate partners who physically assaulted them were violated. More than two-thirds of the restraining orders against intimate partners who raped or stalked the victim were violated. SEXUAL ASSAULT AND STALKING -
One in 6 women and 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.
Nearly 7.8 million women have been raped by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Sexual assault or forced sex occurs in approximately 40-45% of battering relationships. 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men have been stalked in their lifetime. 81% of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are also physically assaulted by that partner; 31% are also sexually assaulted by that partner. REPORTING RATES -
Domestic violence is one of the most chronically underreported crimes.
Only approximately one-quarter of all physical assaults, one-fifth of all rapes, and one-half of all stalkings perpetuated against females by intimate partners are reported to the police. |
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L.E. Ohlin & M. H. Tonry (eds.) Family Violence. Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press.
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http://www.breakthecycle.org/html%20files/I_4a_startstatis.htm.
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Gelles, and Smith, “Physical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and
Adaptations to Violence” in 8,145 Families. Transaction Publishers (1990).
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Edelson, J.L. (1999). “The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Woman
Battering.” Violence Against Women. 5:134-154.
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Justice, “Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women,”
November 1998.
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United States. 2003. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National
Centers for Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta, GA.
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Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Nancy. (1998). “Stalking in America.”National Institute for Justice.
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States, 2000,” (2001).
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Nancy.
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States. 2003. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for
Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta, GA.
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United States. 2007. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National
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