DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN OHIO

• 38% of Ohio women and 33.0% of Ohio men experience intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner rape and/or intimate partner stalking in their lifetimes.
• In 2019, there were 76,203 law enforcement calls for domestic violence incidents. Manyother incidents went unreported.
• On one day in September 2020 in Ohio, 1,246 domestic violence victims found refuge in emergency shelters or transitional housing provided by local domestic violence programs. Another 1,404 adults and children received non-residential assistance and services, including counseling, legal advocacy, and children’s support groups for domestic violence.
• Domestic violence hotlines are a lifeline for victims in danger, providing support, information, safety planning, and resources. In the 24-hour survey period, Ohio hotlines answered 676 calls, averaging 28 hotline calls every hour.
• In the year ending June 30, 2020, 109 individuals were victims of domestic violence homicide, including four children.
• As of December 31, 2020, Ohio had submitted one domestic violence misdemeanor conviction and two protective order records to the NICS Index. DID YOU KNOW?
• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner.
• On a single day in 2020, domestic violence hotlines received 21,321 calls, an average of almost 15 calls every minute.
• In 2018, domestic violence accounted for 20% of all violent crime.
• Abusers’ access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner femicide at least eleven-fold. When firearms have been used in the most severe abuse incident, the risk increases 41-fold.
• 65% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 96% of the victims of these crimes are female.

• Domestic violence is a crime. It is the single most major cause of injury to women – more than rapes, muggings, and auto accidents combined.
• Battery is recurrent and escalates, becoming more frequent and more violent over time often resulting in serious injury or death.
• Drugs and alcohol do not cause battering.
• Domestic violence occurs among all races, economic levels, religions, and sexual identification.
• On average, 20 people experience intimate partner physical violence every minute in the United States. This equates to more than 10 million abuse victims annually.
• Females ages 16-24 are the most vulnerable to intimate partner violence than any other age group, which is triple the national average.
• 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, posttraumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, etc…
• 1 in 7 women and 1 in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner.
• 1 in 10 women have been raped by an intimate partner (data is unavailable on male victims).
• 1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men have been stalked
• An abuser’s access to a firearm increases the risk of intimate partner femicide by 400%.
• 34% of women homicide victims over the age of 15 are killed by their husbands, ex-husbands, or boyfriends. 5% of male murder victims were killed by an intimate partner.
• 94% of murder-suicide victims are female.
• Women are 7 to 10 times more likely to be injured in acts of intimate violence then men are.
• Approximately 37% of obstetric patients – of every race, class, and educational background- report being physically abused while pregnant
• 32% of women are victimized again within six months following a domestic violence incident.
• More than 53% of male batterers also beat their children.
• If male children see domestic violence, they are 700 times more likely to repeat violence. If male children experience domestic violence, they are 1,000  times more likely to repeat violence.