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    This document provides statistics on family and domestic violence in the United States. It reports that between 1998 and 2002 approximately 60% of family violence incidents were reported to police, 50% of victims were raped or sexually assaulted, and 28% of victims were killed. Most abusers were male and victims were female, with over half of victims being children under 18 years old. The statistics also show that family violence declined between 1993 and 2002, and that drugs and alcohol were involved in around 40% of incidents.

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    This document provides statistics on family and domestic violence in the United States. It reports that between 1998 and 2002 approximately 60% of family violence incidents were reported to police, 50% of victims were raped or sexually assaulted, and 28% of victims were killed. Most abusers were male and victims were female, with over half of victims being children under 18 years old. The statistics also show that family violence declined between 1993 and 2002, and that drugs and alcohol were involved in around 40% of incidents.

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    This document provides statistics on family and domestic violence in the United States. It reports that between 1998 and 2002 approximately 60% of family violence incidents were reported to police, 50% of victims were raped or sexually assaulted, and 28% of victims were killed. Most abusers were male and victims were female, with over half of victims being children under 18 years old. The statistics also show that family violence declined between 1993 and 2002, and that drugs and alcohol were involved in around 40% of incidents.

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    Family and Domestic

    Violence
    Social Institutions

    Statistics

    Reports

    Sexual

    28% of the victims of family violence were killed

    Gender and Race

    50% of family violence victims were raped or sexually assaulted

    Physical

    Approximately 60% of family violence incidents were reported to police between 1998 and 2002.

    most abusers were male (93%)


    6 out of 10 were white, while about a quarter were black
    most were against a female (78%)
    Most family violence victims were white (74%)

    Age

    more than 50% were against a child under age 18


    the majority were between ages 25 and 54 (65.7%)

    Statistics By Year

    1993-2002: family violence declined/ during timeframe 1-10 violent reports were family violence
    1995-1996: study conducted in the 50 States and the District of Columbia; 25% of women and
    7.6% of men were raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting
    partner, or dating partner/acquaintance at some time in their lifetime
    1996: among all female murder victims in the U.S., 30% were slain by their husbands or
    boyfriends
    1998-2002: 84% of spouse abuse victims were females, and 86% of victims of dating partner abuse
    were female
    2000: 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.

    Fatalities

    Gender
    8 in 10 murderers who killed a family member were male. Males were 83% of spouse murderers
    and 75% of murderers who killed a boyfriend or girlfriend.
    Females were 58% of family murder victims
    Of all the murders of females in 2002, family members were responsible for 43%.19%
    More than 4 women and 1 man are murdered by their intimate partners in this country every day
    Age
    Children under age 13 were 23% of murder victims killed by a family member
    Spouse
    approx. 66% of women killed by firearms were killed by their intimate partners

    Violence With Substance

    Drugs and Alcohol


    Of family violence victims, 38.5% reported the offender was under the influence of drugs or alcohol
    during the incident
    41.4%offenders involved in violence with a boyfriend or girlfriend were under the influence of
    drugs or alcohol
    By Year
    Between 1998 and 2002, 30% of victims said the offender was under the influence of drugs or
    alcohol
    Between 1998 and 2002, most of the 32.1 million nonfatal violent crimes involved an individual
    victim (85.6%)

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