2008 Domestic Violence Statistics, Trumbull County, Ohio

• Domestic Violence is a crime as stated in the Ohio Revised Code 2919.25

• Someplace Safe documented 877 Crisis Calls

• Assisted 476 Women and 18 men with Legal Advocacy

• Sheltered 106 Women and 88 Children

• 159 Women Attended Support Group

• 72 Children Attended Support Group

• 2 Murders

• 28 Rapes

• 67 Attacks on Women by someone they know

• 103 neglectful or abusive acts towards children

• 157 Stalkings

• 163 Attacks on 12-17 year olds in school

• 532 Assaults

One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.1

An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.2

85% of domestic violence victims are women.3

Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.4

Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.5

Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.6

1. Tjaden, Patricia & Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, "Extent, Nature and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey," (2000).

2. Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. 2003. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta, GA.

3. Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003.

4. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Criminal Victimization, 2005," September 2006.

5. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Intimate Partner Violence in the United States," December 2006.

6. Frieze, I.H., Browne, A. (1989) Violence in Marriage. In L.E. Ohlin & M. H. Tonry (eds.) Family Violence. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.