The National Center for Victims of Crime

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

In 2007, crimes by intimate partners accounted for 23 percent of all violent crimes against females and 3 percent of all violent crimes against males.[1]
Of female murder victims in 2008, 35 percent were killed by an intimate partner; 2 percent of male murder victims were killed by an intimate partner.[2]
In 2007, 10 percent of state and 14 percent of local firearms application rejections (56,452 and 12,548, respectively) were due to a domestic violence misdemeanor conviction or restraining order.[3]
Domestic violence victims constituted 22 percent of all adult victims compensated by victim compensation programs in 2008. They received compensation for 35 percent of all assault claims.[4]
One study found that women who had experienced any type of personal violence (even when the last episode was 14 to 30 years ago) reported a greater number of chronic physical symptoms than those who had not been abused. The risk of suffering from six or more chronic physical symptoms increased with the number of forms of violence experienced.[5]
Fifteen percent of teens who have been in a relationship report having been hit, slapped, or pushed by their boyfriend or girlfriend.[6]
For 5 percent of adults on probation, domestic violence was the most serious offense of which they had been convicted.[7]
A study of Native American women in Oklahoma found that 83 percent had experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence in their lifetimes, and 68 percent had experienced severe forms of violence.[8]
Eighty-nine percent of Native American women who reported partner violence had suffered injuries from the violence, and 73 percent reported moderate or severe injuries, with nearly 1 in 4 (22 percent) reporting more than 20 different injury incidents.[9]
In 2005, Native American/Alaska Native women had the highest rate of intimate partner victimization (18.2 per 1,000), compared to African American women (8.2), white women (6.3), and Asian American women (1.5).[10]
A 2004 study found that women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods were more than twice as likely to be victims of intimate partner violence compared with women in more advantaged neighborhoods.[11]

Same-Sex Domestic Violence

In 2007, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, or transgender people (LGBT) reported 3,319 incidents of domestic violence to local anti-violence programs. Five of these incidents resulted in murder.[12]

In 2007, 47 percent of LGBT domestic violence victims were men, 48 percent women, and 5 percent transgender.[13]

In cases where the age of the victim was recorded, 65 percent of LGBT domestic violence victims were over the age of 30, while 35 percent were under 30.[14]

[1] Calculated from Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2007: Statistical Tables," (soon to be published), Table 43a.

[2] Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Crime in the United States, 2008: Expanded Homicide Data," (Washington, DC: GPO, 2009), calculated from Tables 2 and 10, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_information/homicide.html (accessed October 5, 2009).

[3] Bowling et al., "Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2007," (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2008), 1, 6, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/html/bcft/2007/bcft07st.pdf (accessible October 6, 2009).

[4] National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards, "Crime Victim Compensation Helps Victims," (Alexandria, VA: NACVCB, 2009), http://www.nacvcb.org (accessed October 5, 2009).

[5] Christina Nicolaidis et al., "Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Symptoms in an Academic Internal Medicine Practice," Journal of General Internal Medicine 19 (2004): 823, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1492498 (accessed October 5, 2009).

[6] Teen Research Unlimited, "Liz Claiborne Inc. Topline Findings: Teen Relationship Abuse Survey (Conducted March 2006)," (Northbrook, IL: Teen Research Unlimited, 2006), 11, http://www.loveisnotabuse.com/pdf/Liz%20Claiborne%20Mar%2006%20Relationship%20Abuse%20Hotsheet.pdf (accessed October 6, 2009).

[7] Lauren Glaze, "Probation and Parole in the United States, 2006," (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 2007), 4, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ppus06.pdf (accessed October 5, 2009).

[8] Lorraine Halinka Malcoe and Bonnie M. Duran, "Intimate Partner Violence and Injury in the Lives of Low-Income Native American Women," in Family Violence and Violence Against Women: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, ed. Bonnie Fisher (Washington, DC: NIJ, 2004), I-2-9, http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/199703.pdf (accessed October 5, 2009).

[9] Ibid., I-2-10.

[10] Ronet Bachman et al., "Violence Against Native American and Alaska Native Women and the Criminal Justice Response: What Is Known," (Washington, DC: NIJ, 2008), 47, http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/223691.pdf (accessed October 5, 2009).

[11] Michael Benson and Greer Fox, "When Violence Hits Home: How Economics and Neighborhood Play a Role," (Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, 2004), 1, http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/205004.pdf (accessed October 5, 2009).

[12] National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Domestic Violence in the United States in 2007," (New York: National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2008), 2, 8, http://www.avp.org/publications/reports/documents/2007NCAVPDVREPORT.pdf (accessed October 5, 2009).

[13] Ibid., 11.

[14] Ibid.,15.

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