Domestic violence

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Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, economic, and emotional/psychological abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence varies dramatically.

In the United States, more than 10 million adults experience domestic violence annually. 1 • If each of these adults experienced only once incidence of violence, an adult in the US would experience violence every three seconds. However, because domestic violence is a pattern, many experiences repeated acts of abuse annually, so an incident of abuse happens far more frequently than every three seconds. • 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men experience sexual violence, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime with ‘IPV-related impact’ such as being concerned for their safety, PTSD symptoms, injury, or needing victim services. 2 o Approximately 1 in 5 female victims and 1 in 20 male victims need medical care.3 o Female victims sustain injuries 3x more often than male victims.4 o 1 in 5 female victims and 1 in 9 male victims need legal services.5 o 23.2% of women and 13.9% of men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime.6 • From 2016 through 2018 the number of intimate partner violence victimizations in the United States increased 42%.7 • On a typical day, domestic violence hotlines nationwide receive over 19,000 calls.8 • An abuser’s access to a firearm increases the risk of intimate partner femicide by 400%. 9 • In 2018, partner violence accounted for 20% of all violent crime.10 • Intimate partner violence is most common against women between the ages of 18-24.11 • 19% of intimate partner violence involves a weapon.

Homicide • 1 in 2 female murder victims and 1 in 13 male murder victims are killed by intimate partners.19 • A study of intimate partner homicides found 20% of victims were family members or friends of the abused partner, neighbors, persons who intervened, law enforcement responders, or bystanders.20 • 65% of all murder-suicides are perpetrated by intimate partners.21 • 96% of murder-suicide victims are female.22 • Most intimate partner homicides are committed with firearms.23 • Abusers’ access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner femicide at least five-fold. When firearms have been used in the most severe abuse incident, the risk increases 41-fold.24 • While the overall rate of intimate partner has decreased, intimate partner femicide has increased in recent years, driven by an increase in intimate partner femicide committed with a firearm

Victims of intimate partner violence lose a total of 8,000,000 days of paid work each year, the equivalent of 32,000 full-time jobs.29 • Intimate partner violence is estimated to cost the US economy between $5.8 billion and $12.6 billion annually, up to 0.125% of the national gross domestic product.30 • Between 21-60% of victims of intimate partner violence lose their jobs due to reasons stemming from the abuse.31 • Between 2003 and 2008, 142 women were murdered in their workplace by former or current intimate partners. This amounts to 22% of workplace homicides among women.3