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Women experience significantly more partner violence than men do. According to survey estimates, approximately 1.5 million women and 834,700 men are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States. Because women are also more likely to be injured by intimate partners, research aimed at understanding and preventing partner violence against women should be stressed.

--Violence against women is primarily partner violence: 76 percent of the women who were raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 were assaulted by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date, compared with 18 percent of the men.

However, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics published a report in May, 2000 which sheds some light on part of domestic violence. Their report is based on their own surveys (National Crime Victimization Survey), and on data from the FBI (homicide data). In their report they define domestic violence as violent crimes by current or former spouses, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Violent crimes include lethal (homicide) and nonlethal (rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) offenses. From their data, we can say that in 1998, women experienced at least 900,000 violent offences at the hands of an intimate, and men were victims of at least 160,000 violent crimes by an intimate partner. Their report did not mention emotional abuse, harassment or stalking.

So, more than 1 million violent crimes were committed against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends. To view the report, go to Intimate Partner Violence 16

Gender trends: Women make up 3/4 of the victims of homicide by an intimate partner. Actually, 33% of all women murdered (of course, only cases which are solved are included) are murdered by an intimate partner. Women make up about 85% of the victims of non-lethal domestic violence. In all, women are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about 5 times that of males. 16

Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. –Commonwealth Fund survey, 1998 Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend each year to 4 million women who are physically abused by their husbands or live-in partners each year. – Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998

http://www.ndvh.org/dvInfo.html

Females are victims of family violence at a rate at least 3 times that of males.

(Bureau of Justice Statistics, Highlights from 20 years of Surveying Crime Victims (p25.) http://www.actabuse.com/dvstats.html

Corlorde,

Your first bolded listing is affected dramatically from female on female violence. Yes, women are far more likely to assault women than men are men in an intimate setting.

Your second bolded listing lists cohabting partner, which includes other women. It also lists the ones who WERE assaulted, not that 76% of all women are assaulted. Men are far more likley to report assault, that is why confidential, sociological and cross-cultural studies like the ones I listed are far more accurate.

Your third bolded listing and the others also do not take into account that men are far less likley to report abuse than women are.

That is why Bureau Statistics, which you gave, are less accurate than sociological and cultural studies. They are less accurate than personal studies and interviews which have a far less rate of error.

None of your studies were long-term studies, either.

You would be wise to pay attention more to long-tem studies, which I provided and you did not.

You would be wise to pay attention more to sociologically, culturally, and cross-culturally based studies which I provided and you did not.

You would be wise to pay attention to randomly-based confidential, personal interviews, which have a much lower rate of error than do your reliance on jujst Bureau Statistics. Men are far lees likley to report abuse. But they will talk about it in sociological interviews, cross-cultural and cultural interviews, and poersonal studies. That is why my studies which I listed are FAR SUPERIOR to yours.

Have a good one.

Your stats are the ones that get reported to the cops. That's where the BJS gets its numbers. No one disputes that women call the cops more often. That's not the issue.

Men are well aware that when the cops arrive, if they are covered in blood and the wife still has the knife in her hand, he'll still be the one arrested, and it will go into the stats as another male-on-female assault.

That has been changing recently, but had been the norm for at least a decade. And largely thanks to the BS you tried to peddle here.

76 percent of the women who were raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 were assaulted by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date, compared with 18 percent of the men.

What are you trying to pull here? That is a cleverly worded dodge designed to fool the reader into believing he just read that 76% of the people assaulted domestically are female; 18% of men are. But that isn't what it says. What it says is that men are several times more likely than women to be assaulted outside the home. As a consequence. the fraction of assaults on males that occur domestically is quite low... 18% of total assaults, 82% of which occur somewhere else. Men are assaulted far more often than women are. Look it up.

Studies where they call people up, ask for the 'woman of the house', and ask who hits who more, consistently -- and across cultures -- say that women themselves admit they hit more often. It's just that most men would never call the cops on their own wife. So the Justice Department stats always show more assaults on wives than on husbands. Even the Justice Department itself admits that.

Don't try to fool people in here. I don't like that.

Corlorde, your Bureau of Justice stats include domestic and non-domestic violence. Don't mix domestic and non-domestic violence stats together. That gives a false picture. Separate the two. When you do, you will see that men are more violent to women non-domestically and women are more violent than men, domestically.

This thread is concerned with domestic violence, not non-domestic violence and domestic violence stats mixed together. Corlorde, your post is concerned with the totality of violence directed against women and men.

Yes, there are more acts of violence directed against women in non-domestic settings, but domestically speaking, my thread shows ample proof that women are far more violent than men in domestic settings.

In domestic settings, female on female violence is the highest followed by female on male violence, then male on male violence and finally male on female violence.

Corlordes stats are drawn from the Bureau of Justice stat's, which are drawn primarily from police records. Men are far less likely to report domestic abuse than women are. That is why you need studies where men can talk about how women are violent against them within the home and have confidentiality involved. Studies which I presented have confidentiality within them and still let the numbers be shown.

There is a stigma within our society applied to men that are hit by their wives, so many men are reluctant to discuss what happens to them within the home, sadly.

Men are taught not to hit back, and at the same time are far more likely to not call the police when hit within the home.