Domestic violence continues decline

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  February 24, 2003 ;     266 words ......former spouses, boyfriends, and other intimate partners were to blame for one-fifth of the...acts recorded against females by intimate partners, according to the Justice Department...girls are victims of violence by intimate partners more frequently than men, the total...

Partners Blamed for Some Female Violence

AP Online;  February 23, 2003 ;     283 words ......former spouses, boyfriends and other intimate partners were to blame for one-fifth of the...acts recorded against females by intimate partners, according to the Justice Department...girls are victims of violence by intimate partners more frequently than men, the total...

Report blames females' partners in many assaults

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 24, 2003 ;     218 words ......former spouses, boyfriends and other intimate partners were to blame for one-fifth of the...acts recorded against females by intimate partners, according to the Justice Department...girls are victims of violence by intimate partners more frequently than men, the total...

NATION IN BRIEF

The Washington Post;  February 24, 2003 ;     435 words ......former spouses, boyfriends and other intimate partners were to blame for one-fifth of the...recorded violent acts against women by intimate partners, according to the Justice Department...girls are victims of violence by intimate partners more frequently than men, the total...

Guns account for 95% of murder-suicides

Crime Control Digest;  May 3, 2002 ;     88 words ......Ohio (11). The most common type of murder-suicide was between two intimate partners: 73.7 percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner. Of these, 93.5 percent were females killed by their intimate partners. Inf.: www.vpc.org.

Marriage and the Ties That Bind

The Washington Post;  February 15, 1987 ;     700+ words ...INTIMATE PARTNERS Patterns in Love and Marriage By...the case may be-is the concern of Intimate Partners, a series of interviews with six...than any thriller ever written. Intimate Partners too often abandons the ordinary...

Violence against females drops nearly 50%

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 24, 2003 ;     155 words ...WASHINGTON--Current or former spouses, boyfriends and other intimate partners were to blame for one-fifth of the nonfatal violence in...common of the violent acts recorded against females by intimate partners, according to the Justice Department agency. Those included...

ATTACKS ON WOMEN OFTEN STAGED BY PARTNER.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 24, 2003 ;     532 words ......WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Current or former spouses and other intimate partners were to blame for one-fifth of the non-fatal violence in...of the 588,490 violent acts recorded against females by intimate partners, according to the Justice Department. Those 502,690 included...

One in five SA men has raped a woman.(News)

The Mercury (South Africa);  October 24, 2006 ;     512 words ......been sexually violent towards their intimate partners, while 16.3% reported raping a non-partn...men raping both non-partners and intimate partners. Shockingly, the mean age of first...on the rape of intimate and non- intimate partners. The findings contribute significantly...

Violence against intimate partners down

Charleston Gazette;  March 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON - Criminal violence against intimate partners fell by nearly two-thirds in recent...Justice Statistics. Homicides among intimate partners dropped by roughly a third. The figures...overall drop in U.S. criminal abuse of intimate partners approaches two-thirds. That's the...

New study claims high rate of spousal abuse by SA men.(News)

Pretoria News (South Africa);  September 16, 2008 ;     293 words ......of physically abusing their wives, girlfriends or other intimate partners. A study published by the Canadian Medical Association...Hospital, said men who perpetrated violence against their intimate partners were typically in their late 30s, often with two children...

Violence Against Women; Facts to Know.

NWHRC Health Center - Violence Against Women;  March 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......394-2255). * Women living with female intimate partners experience less intimate-partner violence than women living with male intimate partners. However, men living with male intimate partners experience more intimate-partner violence...

U.S. REPORTS DECLINE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE \ DOWN BY HALF SINCE 1993.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  December 29, 2006 ;     617 words ......downward trend in violence by so-called intimate partners -- a former spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend...consequences? said Wyatt. Many of these intimate partners are still in relationships -- they...female. The number of men murdered by intimate partners dropped 45 percent, compared to ...

The subcontinent

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  July 1, 2003 ;     430 words ...U.S. Commission: India's Minorities Subjected to Severe Violence According to the May 14 Times of India, the U.S...minorities in India have periodically been subject to severe violence, including mass killings." The report also notes...

No refuge for abused women.(NEWS)

Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  November 25, 2006 ;     288 words ......who have been killed since 1996, half of them by their intimate partners. The statistics show that all 18 shelters around Ireland...violently in the past decade, half of whom were killed by their intimate partners. The two Dublin city hostels for battered women turn away...