Statistics

Violence Against Women in Asian/Pacific Islander communities 

  • Approximately 21-55% of Asian women report experiencing intimate physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner during her lifetime.¹
  • The top three trends in abuse among Asian women include emotional/verbal abuse, physical abuse and economic abuse.²
  • In an anonymous survey of A/PI survivors in Washington, D.C., 28.5% of women were abused by their in-laws.³

Domestic Violence in the United States 

  • 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner.⁴
  • 44% of percent of lesbian women and 61% of bisexual women experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.⁵
  • 26% percent of gay men and 37% of bisexual men experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.⁶
  • 30-50% of transgender people experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.⁷

Statistics in the Washington, DC metropolitan area

  • In 2014, the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) received 32,940 calls related to domestic violence, about 1 call every 16 minutes.⁸
  • 5,005 petitions for Civil Protection Orders were filed in 2013, a 7% increase in filings from 2012. ⁹
  • 5,873 people were served at the two Domestic Violence Intake Center (DVIC) locations in 2013, a 7% overall increase from 2012.10

 

References

[1] API GBV – http://www.api-gbv.org/files/Facts.Stats-APIIDV-2015.pdf

[2] Ibid.

[3]  Ibid.

[4] National Coalition Against Domestic Violence – http://ncadv.org/learn-more/statistics

[5] Domesticshelters.org – https://www.domesticshelters.org/domestic-violence-statistics/lgbtq-and-domestic-violence#.WRxi5vryvHo

[6] Domesticshelters.org – https://www.domesticshelters.org/domestic-violence-statistics/lgbtq-and-domestic-violence#.WRxi5vryvHo

[7] Domesticshelters.org – http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Intimate-Partner-Violence-and-Sexual-Abuse-among-LGBT-People.pdf

[8] DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence https://www.dccadv.org/img/fck/file/Domestic%20Violence%20in%20the%20District%20of%20Columbia%202014.pdf

[9] NCADV – https://ncadv.org/files/DC.pdf

[10] Ibid.