Statistics on Intimate Partner Violence

Sexual Assault

• 1 out of every 6 American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
• Teenagers and young adults are at the greatest risk for date rape.
• 20-25% of college aged women will be raped or someone will attempt to rape them during their first 6 months of attending college.
• In 8 out of 10 rape cases, the victim knew the perpetrator as a friend, intimate partner, co-worker or family member.
  
• Victims of sexual assault are:
  3 times more likely to suffer from depression.
  6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
  13 times more likely to abuse alcohol.
  26 times more likely to abuse drugs.
  4 times more likely to contemplate suicide.

(Information provided by RAIIN 2008)

Dating/Domestic Violence

• 1 out of 4 people in dating relationships have experienced intimate partner violence.
• On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.]
• 1 out of 3 women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
• 3 out of 4 adults personally know someone who is or has been a victim of domestic violence.
• Boys who witness their fathers' violence are 10 times more likely to engage in spouse abuse in later adulthood than boys from non-violent homes.
• Only about 15% of all domestic assaults are reported to the police
• Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women ages 15-44
• There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the United States as there are shelters for battered women and their children

(National Domestic Violence Hotline 2008)

Stalking

• 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will be stalked in their lifetime.
• 77% of female victims and 64% of male victims know their stalker.
• 81% of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are physically assaulted by that partner, and 31% are ALSO sexually assaulted by that same partner.
• Almost 1/3 of stalkers have stalked before.
• 78% of stalkers use more than one means of approach.

(National Center for Victims of Crime 2008)