| Domestic Violence
Each year, 1,500,000 women and 835,000 men in the United States
are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner. (National
Institute of Justice (NIJ. 2000. Extent, Nature and Consequences of
Intimate Partner Violence. Washington, DC: U.S. Department
of Justice.)
Because the number of victimizations far exceeds the number of
victims, it is estimated that in the United States, there are 4.8
million intimate partner rapes and physical assaults against women
annually and 2.9 million intimate partner physical assaults against
men annually. (Ibid.)
Among women who report having been raped, physically assaulted,
or stalked since they were 18 years old, 60 percent were victimized
by a husband, co-habiting partner, a boyfriend, or a date. (Ibid.)
Approximately 503,000 women and 186,000 men in the United States
are stalked annually by a current or former intimate partner. (Ibid.)
More than 500,000 women have injuries requiring medical treatment
each year that were inflicted upon them by intimate partners. (Ibid.)
The direct costs of medical treatment for battered women annually
are estimated at 1.8 billion. (Wisner, C., Gilmer,T., Saltman,
L., Zink,T. "Intimate partner violence against women: do victims
cost health plans more?" Journal of Family Practice,
1999: 48(6.)
Each year, over 324,000 pregnant women are victims of intimate
partner violence in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC. 2002. Safe Motherhood: Promoting Health
for Women Before, During and After Pregnancy, 2002. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.)
Of all murder victims, 11 percent were killed by an intimate.
Of all intimate murder victims, 74 percent were female. Of all
female murder victims, about 30 percent were killed by an intimate. (Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS.
November, 2001. Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim
1993-1999. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.)
Thirty-two percent of all the females between the ages of 20 and
24 murdered between 1993 and 1999 were victims of an intimate partner.
(Ibid.)
Since 1976, intimate partners have been responsible for 30 percent
of all the female homicides recorded annually. (Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS). May 2000.
Intimate Partner Violence. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Justice.)
Children under the age of 12 resided in 43 percent of the households
in which domestic violence was reported between 1993 and 1998.
(Ibid.)
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' (NCAVP data
collection for same sex domestic violence in 2001 reported 5046
incidents. Forty-three percent of the reported incidents involved
females, 49 percent involved males, and the remainder were of unspecified
gender.(Baum, R. and Moore, K. 2002. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender Domestic Violence in 2001. New York. National
Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.)
The American Psychological Association (APA estimates
nearly one in three adult women experience at least one physical
assault
by an intimate partner during adulthood. APA estimates that 4 million
women experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during
any 12 month period. (American Psychological
Association. 1996. Violence
and the Family: Report of the American Psychological Association
President's Task Force on Violence and the Family. Washington,
DC: American Psychological Association)
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