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Contents 1 Domestic violence victims 2 Victimization (in general) 3 Violence against women 4 Impact 5 Trends 6 Assault 6.1 Definition 7 Rape 7.1 Definition 8 Stalking 8.1 Definition 9 References

[edit] Domestic violence victims

• Women are six times as likely as men to experience intimate partner violence.^[1]
• Affects people across society, irrespective of economic status.^[2]
• Affects people regardless of race, ethnicity, etc.^[3]
• Much greater risk for those who are married, compared to cohabitants. Relationships between cohabitants are easier to end, while married couples have many more pressures to instead work through conflicts.^[4]

[edit] Victimization (in general)

• Victimization as a minor is a factor associated with victimization later in life. (e.g. Women were twice as likely to report being raped as adults, if they reported being victimized before age 18)^[5]

[edit] Violence against women

• Younger women, particularly those ages 19 to 29, are more likely than other women to be victims of violence.^[1]
• Women victimized by intimates are more likely to sustain injury -- 52% of those victimized by an intimate are injured, compared to 20% of women victimized by a stranger.^[1]

[edit] Impact

• Strains resources of law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
• ~40% of all calls for service requiring police response are domestic disturbances.^[3]
• Consumes more police time than all other major felonies involving physical violence combined.^[3]

[edit] Trends

In the United States, the rate of domestic violence incidents has declined over the past 1-2 decades. Possible factors include greater financial independence and higher paying jobs for women, better access to counseling, and easier time in obtaining divorce. These factors help women to put an end to violent relationships.^[6]

[edit] Assault

• In general, physical assault affects a large portion of the U.S. population, with 51.9% of women and 66.4% of men saying they had been physically assaulted at some point as a child and/or adult.^[5]
• Each year, 1.9 million women and 3.2 million men are assaulted in the United States.^[5]
• Risk of injury from physical assault by an intimate partner is much higher than other perpetrators.^[5]
• Women are significantly more likely to be physically injured (39%) than male victims (24.8%) from physical assault.^[5]
• One-third of injured female rape and assault victims get medical treatment (30.2% of women injured from assault)^[5]

[edit] Definition

• "Physical assault was defined as behaviors that threaten, attempt, or actually inflict physical harm." — Definition used by the National Violence Against Women Survey (1995-1996)^[5]

[edit] Rape

• At some point in their lives, 17.6% of women in the U.S. have been victims of attempted or completed rape.^[5]
• 54% of women who reported they had been victims of attempted or completed rape at some point in their lives, were younger than 18 when they were first victimized. 21.6% were younger than 12 when it first happened, and 32.4% were ages 12 to 17.^[5]
• Native American women significantly more likely than those of other groups to report they had been raped at some point in their lives.^[5]
• Hispanic women in the U.S. are significantly less likely to report they had been raped at some point in their lives, than non-Hispanic women, according to the NVAWS.^[5] These results are not conclusive, with previous studies on the differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic women on prevalence of rape producing contradictory results.^[7][8]
• Risk of injury from rape by an intimate partner is much higher than other perpetrators.^[5]
• Women are significantly more likely to be physically injured (31.5%) than male victims (16.1%) from rape.^[5]
• One-third of injured female rape and assault victims get medical treatment (35.6% of women injured from rape)^[5]

[edit] Definition

There is no universal definition of rape. This makes it difficult to compare statistics across jurisdictions. For example, the definition of sexual assault used in Illinois differs from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) definition. Thus, UCR does not report sexual assault statistics for Illinois.^[9]

[edit] Stalking

• 8.1% of surveyed women and 2.2% of surveyed men reported being stalked at some time in their life.^[5]
• 1% of women surveyed and 0.4 percent of men surveyed reported being stalked in the 12 months preceding the survey.^[5]
• Approximately 1 million women and 371,000 men are stalked annually in the United States.^[5]
• Native American women significantly more likely than those of other groups to report they had been stalked at some point in their lives.^[5]

[edit] Definition

• "a course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated visual or physical proximity; nonconsensual communication; verbal, written, or implied threats; or a combination thereof that would cause fear in a reasonable person (with repeated meaning on two or more occasions)." The definition "does not require stalkers to make a credible threat of violence against victims, but it does require victims to feel a high level of fear (“fear of bodily harm”)." — Definition used by the National Violence Against Women Survey (1995-1996)^[5]

[edit] References