Statistics of DV

There is not typical victim. Domestic Violence occurs among all ages, races, sexual orientation, religion, gender, socio-economic classes, and education levels. It can also happen in both opposite- sex and same-sex relationships. Domestic Violence does not discriminate if you are married, living together, or just dating.

In United States

• Domestic violence is the single largest cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States, more than muggings, car accidents, and rapes combined. (Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2000).
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• Each year between 2 million and 4 million women are battered, and 2,000 of these battered women will die of their injuries (Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2000).
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• Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year1 to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year (Health Concerns Across a Woman’s Lifespan)
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• Male violence against women does much more damage than female violence against men; women are much more likely to be injured than men (Bureau of Justice Statistics).
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• The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide committed by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year. Of that amount, nearly $4.1 billion are for direct medical and mental health care services, and nearly $1.8 billion are for the indirect costs of lost productivity or wages (Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States, April 2003).
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• Three in four women (76 percent) who reported they had been raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 said that a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date committed the assault (Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey).
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• Annually in the United States, 503,485 women are stalked by an intimate partner (Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, National Institute of Justice, 2000).

In Texas

• Batterers between the ages of 20 and 24 accounted for the highest number of family violence incidents in Texas in 2000, with the second highest being batterers between the ages of 25 and 20 (The Texas Department of Public Safety).
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• In 2000, there were more than 615 Texas law enforcement officers assaulted during the course of reported family violence incidents (The Texas Department of Public Safety).
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• 74% of all Texans have either themselves, a family member and/or a friend experienced some form of domestic violence (The Texas Council on Family Violence, 2002).
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• 47% of all Texans report having personally experienced at least one form of domestic violence, severe (physical or sexual), verbal and/or forced isolation from friends and family at some point in their lifetime (The Texas Council on Family Violence).