Violent Facts
National Crime Victimization Survey (United States)
Over two-thirds of violent victimizations against women are committed by someone they know.
White and Black women experience equal rates of violence committed by intimates (boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, or ex-spouse) and other relatives (parents, siblings, grandparents, in-laws, cousins).
Among women who survived a violence crime, injuries occurred almost twice as frequently when the offender was an intimate than when a stranger. Injured women were also more likely to require medical care if the attacker was an intimate.
For rape survivors, women raped by a stranger sustained more serious injuries than women raped by someone they knew.
Rape is more likely committed by someone a woman knows (55%) than by a stranger (44%).
Women aged 20-24 were more likely to experience all types of violent crime.
Risk of rape or assault decreases after age 34.
Women over age 65 were just as likely to be robbery victims as those between ages 35-64.
Women who were victimized by strangers were more likely to face an armed attacker (33%) compared to those who faced intimates (18%).
Rapes were more likely to take place between the hours of 6pm and midnight.
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