- According to The National Violence Against Women survey, 22.1 percent of women experienced physical abuse at some point in their lives.
- Over 30 percent of Americans are acquainted with a woman who has suffered violence from her male partner.
- In the US, domestic violence calls account for up to 40% of all calls to police.
- In 2009-2010 the various Abuse Treatment Programs approved through the NC Council for Women/Domestic Violence Commission accepted 5,361 referrals to serve perpetrators of domestic violence. Only 152 of those were self-referrals.
- Domestic Violence Programs in North Carolina in 2009-2010 received 120,666 phone calls and served 66,320 persons of which 56,161 were female. The largest age group (22,157 persons) served were those between the ages of 45-54.
- Counties serving the largest number of clients:
Randolph 4858
Forsyth 4687
Wake 3526
Rockingham 1944
Lee 1944
New Hanover 1823
Buncombe 1428
- In 2010 there 73 murder victims of domestic violence in North Carolina.
- Effective December 1, 2009, a North Carolina statute (G.S. 14-18.2) has been revised so that a person who commits domestic violence against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage or stillbirth is guilty of a separate misdemeanor offence (if the misdemeanor offence is in a certain class then defendant is guilty of a felony).
- North Carolina is one of the fourteen states participating in the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA). DELTA seeks to better understand the interplay of individual, interpersonal, community, and societal factors in intimate partner violence in order to prevent first-time perpetration and first-time victimization. The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV) has partnered in DELTA by providing prevention trainings on building and maintaining Coordinated Community Response Teams, teens, faith communities, and men. The NCCADV and the Department of Public Instruction are in partnership to ensure that every North Carolina school principal has information about the dynamics of domestic violence and assist them in establishing collaborations with local shelters.
- Nonfatal intimate partner violence is most frequently committed by individuals of opposite genders. On average from 2001 to 2005:
- about 96% of females experiencing nonfatal intimate partner violence were victimized by a male and about 3% reported that the offender was another female.
- about 82% of males experiencing nonfatal intimate partner violence were victimized by a female and about 16% of males reported that the offender was another male.
Two thirds of the non-fatal incidences of violence occur in the home. In cases that result in death 75% of the victims are women.
- Studies show that 25% of dating adolescents report verbal, physical, emotional or sexual abuse from their partner. In one study, 10% of the dating teens reported being physically hurt by their boyfriend or girlfriend.
Sources:
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Intimate Partner Violence as a Public Health Problem”, http://www.cdc.gov/Features/IntimatePartnerViolence/.
- Helpmate, “Advocacy”, http://www.helpmateonline.org/advocacy.
- http://www.helpmateonlin.org/advocacy
- http://www.nccfwdvc.com/stats.htm
- ibid.
- http://www.nccfwdvc.com/stats.htm
- http://www.nccadv.org/homicides_partners_2010.htm.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Injury Center”, http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/DELTA/NC.htm.
- Bureau of Justice, “Intimate Partner Violence in the United States 2006”, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/offender.htm.
- http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1000
- http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/TeenDatingViolence_2010-a.pdf
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