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Intimate Partner Violence between Persons of the Same Sex, 1992-2004

Callie Rennison, Ph.D.

 

  • On average between 1992 and 2004, an estimated 762,280 intimate partner victimizations against females was measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey. Of that, 15,000 - or 2% of all IPV against females annually - resulted from violence between a female offender and victim.

  • Between 1992 and 2004, an average annual 126,470 intimate partner victimizations was sustained by male victims. Of those victimizations, 13% - 16,420 victimizations annually - resulted from intimate violence between male victims and perpetrators.

Related publications include:

Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001

Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-99

Intimate Partner Violence

About the Data
The National Crime Victimization Survey gathers information about criminal victimizations from an ongoing nationally represenative sample of households in the United States. Violent victimization refers to threatened, completed and attempted rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault. Intimate partner violence is violence committed by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.

For more information about the National Crime Victmization Survey, consult the following:

  • Rennison, Callie Marie, and Michael Rand. (2006). "Introduction to The National Crime Victimization Survey" in James P. Lynch and Lynn A. Addington (eds.) Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and the UCR. New York: New York. Cambridge University Press.