Based on a Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, August 1995, following are facts about domestic violence:
Women were attacked about six times more often by offenders with whom they had an intimate relationship than were male violence victims.
The rate of intimate-offender attacks on women separated from their husbands was about three times higher than for divorced women and about 25 times higher than for married women.
Women of all races were equally vulnerable to attacks by intimates.
Female victims of violence were more likely to be injured when attacked by someone they knew than female victims of violence who were attacked by strangers.
Just over 3 percent of male homicide victims were known to have been killed by their wives, former wives or girlfriends.
Husbands, former husbands, boyfriends and ex-boyfriends committed more than 1 million violent acts against women.
Family members or other people they know committed more than 2.7 million violent acts against women.
Husbands, former husbands, boyfriends and ex-boyfriends committed 26 percent of rapes and sexual assaults.
Forty-five percent of female victims age 12 and older who were violently attacked by multiple offenders knew the assailants.##
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