Partner Violence Information
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FACTS:- Nearly 5.3 million intimate partner victimizations occur each year among U.S. women ages 18 and older.This violence results in nearly 2 million injuries and nearly 1,300 deaths (CDC 2003).
- Estimates indicate more than 1 million women and 371,000 men are stalked by intimate partners each year (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000).
- Intimate partner violence occurs across all populations, regardless of social, economic, religious, or cultural group.However, young women and those living in poverty are at greater risk. (Heise and Garcia-Moreno 2002).
- Women ages 16 to 24 experience the highest rates of intimate violence - nearly 20 per 1000 women. (Bureau of Justice Special Report: Intimate Partner Violence, May 2000)
- Women are most frequent victims of intimate partner violence 91 - 95%.(U.S. Dept. of Justice).
How is intimate partner violence defined?
Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive behaviors which can include physical, psychological, sexual, economic and emotional abuse exerted by one intimate partner over the other intimate partner, with the goal of establishing and maintaining power and control.
The abuser's goal is reflective of their belief that they have a right or an entitlement to control their intimate partners.
The following is a list of examples of tactics used by an abuser to gain that power and control. (NYS-OPDV):
Physical Abuse:
- Biting
- Kicking
- Strangling
- Grabbing
- Slapping
- Hair-pulling
- Punching
- Shooting
- Shoving
- Stabbing
- Withholding medication, medical care, medical equipment, nutrition
- Forcing use of alcohol or other drugs
Economic Abuse:
- Controls finances
- Keeps partner from getting or keeping a job
- Demands partner's money
Emotional/Verbal Abuse:
- Undermining, or attempting to undermine, a person's self-worth by:
- Constant criticism
- Put downs
- Insults
- Name calling
- Silent treatment
- Manipulating feelings/emotions
- Repeatedly making and breaking promises
- Undermining partner's parenting and/or relationship with children
- Threatening to harm, kill or abduct children
- Using child visitation to harass victim
- Excessive, repeated sleep interruption
Psychological Abuse:
- Instilling, or attempting to instill fear through ridiculing or humiliating the victim
- Destroying property
- Threatening to harm self or victim
- Blaming abuse on victim
- Injuring, killing, or threatening to injure or kill pets
- Isolation, keeps victim away from friends, family
- Stalking
Sexual Abuse:
- Force or attempts to force any sexual activity without consent:
- Rape, sodomy, attacks on sexual parts of the body
- Unprotected sex
- Forces sex with others
- Forced prostitution
- Degrading, sexually explicit behavior toward victim
- Taking/showing sexually explicit film or photos and using them against the victim
- Attempts to undermine a person's sexuality:
- Treating partner in a sexually derogatory manner
- Criticizing sexual performance and desirability
- Accusations of infidelity
- Withholding sex
Below are some resources for you or someone you may know who is a victim of intimate partner violence:
Looking for help?
New York State Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence 24 hr. hotline 1.800.942.6906
SAFE Housing / Advocacy / Support:
Broome County - SOS Shelter, Inc. 24 hr crisis-line 607.754.4340 or www.sosshelter or Toll free 1.877.754.4340
Counseling:
Family & Children's Society 607.729.6206 or www.familycs.org
Crime Victims Assistance Center 24 hr crisis-line 607.722.4256 or www.cvac.us
For other information on domestic violence go to: www.opdv.state.ny.us
For other information on sexual assault go to: www.nyscasa.org
Effects Of Domestic Violence On Children (pdf, 7k)
I Think Someone I Know Is Being Abused (pdf, 12k)
Safety Plan
For People Victimized By Their Intimate Partners (pdf, 29k)
