Domestic Violence Statistics
On average 2 women a week are killed by a male partner or former partner: this constitutes around one-third of all female homicide victims.<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]-->
1 in 4 women, 1 in 9 men in the
In a 1995-1996 study conducted in the 50 States and the
Approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the
There are 1,500 shelters for battered women in the
Violence is the reason stated for divorce in 22% of middle-class marriages. <!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[6]<!--[endif]-->
From 1983 to 1991, the number of domestic violence reports received increased by almost 117%. <!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[7]<!--[endif]-->
Intimate partner violence made up 20% of all nonfatal violent crime experienced by women in 2001. <!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[8]<!--[endif]-->
In 2000, 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner. In recent years, an intimate partner killed approximately 33% of female murder victims and 4% of male murder victims.<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[9]<!--[endif]-->
Access to firearms yields a more than five-fold increase in risk of intimate partner homicide when considering other factors of abuse, according to a recent study, suggesting that abusers who possess guns tend to inflict the most severe abuse on their partners.<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[10]<!--[endif]-->
Of females killed with a firearm, almost two-thirds were killed by their intimate partners. The number of females shot and killed by their husband or intimate partner was more than three times higher than the total number murdered by male strangers using all weapons combined in single victim/single offender incidents in 2002.<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[11]<!--[endif]-->
Of the almost 3.5 million violent crimes committed against family members, 49% of these were crimes against spouses. <!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[12]<!--[endif]-->
84% of spouse abuse victims were females, and 86% of victims of dating partner abuse at were female. <!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[13]<!--[endif]-->
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<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--> (Povey, (ed.), 2004, 2005; Home Office, 1999; Department of Health, 2005.)
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[2]<!--[endif]--> CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveilance System Survey 2005
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[3]<!--[endif]-->Based on survey of 16,000 participants, equally male and female. Patricia Tjaden & Nancy Thoennes, U.S. Dep't of Just., NCJ 181867, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, at iii (2000).
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[4]<!--[endif]--> Patricia Tjaden & Nancy Thoennes, U.S. Dep't of Just., NCJ 183781, Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, at iv (2000).
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[5]<!--[endif]--> Schneider, 1990
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[6]<!--[endif]--> EAP Digest November/December 1991
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[7]<!--[endif]--> NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, 1983 and 1991
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[8]<!--[endif]--> Callie Marie Rennison,
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[9]<!--[endif]--> Callie Marie Rennison,
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[10]<!--[endif]--> Jacquelyn C. Campbell et al., Risk Factors For Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results From A Multi-Site Case Control Study, 93 Am. J. of Public Health 1089, 1092 (2003).
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[11]<!--[endif]--> The Violence Pol'y Ctr., When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2002 Homicide Data: Females Murdered by Males in Single Victim/Single Offender Incidents, at 7 (2004).
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[12]<!--[endif]--> Matthew R. Durose et al.,
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[13]<!--[endif]--> Matthew R. Durose et al.,
