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Domestic Violence Statistics
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Think violence is not an issue in Vermont?
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In 2008, Vermont endured 20 homicides. Thirteen of those homicides were domestic violence related. Of those homicides, 7 children were witness to the murder, whether directly or immediately after. Five of the homicides in Vermont last year were of children. Domestic violence was involved in the families of all of those children.(2008 Vermont Fatality Review Report). |
- Vermont Network programs identified 7,835 children and youth as having been exposed to domestic violence in their homes.
- Network program shelters and safehomes housed 193 children; 1,175 additional children received other services from Network Programs.
- In the recently released report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2006 Homicide Data, Vermont ranked 6th in the nation for the occurence of domestic violence homicides.
Nationally, We Know That:
- On average, more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States.[1]
- Nearly one in four women in the United States reports experiencing violence by a current or former spouse or boyfriend at some point in her life. [2]
- Women are 84% of spouse abuse victims and 86% of victims of abuse at the hands of a boyfriend or girlfriend. [3]
- Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the polic.[4]
- 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household. [5]
- Approximately 20% of the 1.5 million people who experience intimate partner violence annually obtain civil protection orders. Approximately one half of those orders are violated. [6]
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[1] Catalano, Shannan. 2007. Intimate Partner Violence in the United States.
[2] Tjaden, Patricia & Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Extent, Nature and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, 2000.
[3] U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005.
[4] U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, December 2006.
[5] Edelson, J.L., The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Woman Battering, Violence Against Women Journal. 1999.
[6] Tjaden, Patricia & Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Extent, Nature and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey,2000.
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