Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2010

Date

2012

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Publisher

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Abstract

Description

The data in this report were developed from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which annually collects information on nonfatal victimizations reported and not reported to the police against persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. This special report examines trends in nonfatal intimate partner violence which includes rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault committed by an offender who was the victim s current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend.

Keywords

Statistics, Violence -- domestic, Violence -- family, Co-occurrence

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