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Day 14

Did You Know?

Statistics: Domestic Violence

Did You Know...

Domestic violence is a gendered crime...

  • Spousal violence has been consistently identified as one of the most common forms of violence against women in Canada.1
  • The majority of spousal violence victims are women, representing 83% of all victims (2007).2
  • Women are almost four times more likely than men to be victims of spousal violence (2011)3
  • More than 6% of married, common-law, same-sex, separated and divorced female spouses in Ontario report experiencing physical/sexual assault by a spousal partner (2009).4

Women experience more serious forms of spousal assault than men...

  • 4 in 10 women victimized by their spouse report being physically injured (42%), more than twice the proportion of male victims (18%) (2009).5
  • Women are three times more likely to report being beaten, choked, sexually assaulted, or threatened with a gun or knife by their partner or ex-partner (2009).6
  • Women are more likely to experience multiple victimizations, according to self-reported data (2009).7
  • Most victims of domestic homicide are female, while most perpetrators are male...
  • 95% of spousal homicide victims in Ontario are female (2011).8
  • There were 59 female spousal homicide victims in Canada in 2011, in comparison to 7 male victims.9
  • Of the homicide cases with domestic violence involvement which occurred in Ontario from 2002 to 2009, 80% of victims were women, 12% were children and 8% were men.10
  • Of the cases reviewed in Ontario’s 2011 Domestic Violence Death Review Committee Report, 88% of spousal homicide perpetrators were male while 89% of victims were female.11
  • The rate of domestic homicides against women has dropped in Canada...
  • The rate of homicides against female spouses dropped 46% from 1991 to 2011.12

Domestic homicides are more common in certain relationships...

  • Women are six times more likely to be killed by an ex-spouse than a current legally married spouse.13 In fact, the period immediately after a separation is the most dangerous for abuse victims.14
  • About 6 in 10 spousal homicides of women have a history of family violence involving the victim and the accused (2001-2011).15

Many incidents of domestic violence are not reported to police...

  • Less than one-third (30%) of female spousal violence victims state that the incident was reported to police (2009), down from 36% in 2004.16

Women choose not to report to police for a number of reasons...

  • Women are six times more likely than men to say the incident was not reported out of fear of their spouse (19% versus 3%) and they are almost twice as likely to say they did not want anyone to find out (44% versus 26%) (2009).17
  • 79% of women who do report claim they are dealing with the situation in another way, while 74% do not report because they consider it a personal matter (2009).18
  • Certain types of spousal violence are more likely to be reported to police...19
  • 53% of incidents where women are sexually assaulted, and 60% of incidents where women are beaten, choked or have a weapon used against them are reported to police (2009).20
  • Many victims are victimized multiple times before they report to police (2009).21

The link below will take you to the entire article plus footnotes:

 

http://www.women.gov.on.ca/owd/english/ending-violence/domestic_violence.shtml

Statistics: Domestic Violence Did You Know... Domestic violence is a gendered crime... Spousal violence has been consistently identified as one of the most common forms of violence against women in Canada. 1 The majority of spousal violence victims are women, representing 83% of all victims (2007). 2 Women are almost four times more likely than men to be victims of spousal violence (2011) 3
www.women.gov.on.ca

The link below will take you to US information

 
https://www.safehorizon.org/get-informed/domestic-violence-statistics-facts/#definition/
Domestic Violence Statistics and Facts National Domestic Violence Statistics. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
Zonta Says NO to Violence Against Women
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