Artistic Advocates for Healing
Did You Know
A Representation of The Latest Statistics of Domestic Violence and Abuse, National and International
- 31,880 reported violent crimes in the state of Missouri according to the Missouri Law Enforcement.
- Violent crime rose 1.1% in no-metropolitan counties and in cities with populations between 10,000 and 24,999.
- Murder rates jumped 4.9% in metropolitan counties, 3.2% in cities with 50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants, and 1.3% in non-metropolitan counties.
- 9.080 hate crimes with 78 reported in Missouri according to the Department of Justice.
- Annually about 1.5 million women are physically assaulted. That’s one every 15 seconds.
- One in 12 women will be stalked in her lifetime.
- 13 million people, approximately 5% of the U.S. population are victims of crime every year with approximately 1.5 million being victims of a violent crime.
- 1,530 estimated child fatalities caused by an injury resulting from abuse or neglect, or where abuse or neglect was a contributing factor.
- In the United States, the health care cost of intimate partner violence against women totals $5.8 billion each year.
- A recent study in India showed that intimate partner violence was the cause of 16% of maternal deaths during pregnancy.
- In Nicaragua, research has shown that children of women who were abused by their partners were six times more likely to die before the age of five than other children.
- Around the world, 1 in 3 women have been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family.