Intimate Partner Violence Statistics

As understood here, this term refers to physical and/or sexual violence committed within a pre-existing relationship-particularly intimate partner relationships. Some violence committed by strangers is also included.

Intimate Partner Violence

From the National Violence Against Women Survey (Tjaden and Thoennes, 2000 {www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781/pdf}):

• 25% of women and 8% of men have been raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabitating partner, or date, in their lifetime.
• An estimated 1.8 million incidents of rape, physical assault, or stalking are committed by an intimate partner against women, each year in the United States.
• Of all the intimate partner rapes or physical assaults, 93% are committed against women.
• 54% of female victims were under the age of 18 when they were first raped and 83% of female victims were under the age of 25.
• Of all intimate partner rapes or attempted rapes,1 out of 10 are committed against a man (3% of men report surviving rape or attempted rape as a child or adult).
• 11.4% of same-sex cohabitating women, and 15% of same-sex cohabitating men, report being raped, physically assaulted and/or stalked by their partners.