Data have not been analyzed. Data are not collected. Data are statistically unreliable. New data for population groups will be added when available. Both females and males experience family and intimate violence and sexual assault.
Perpetrators can be the same or opposite sex.
Male victimization of females is more common in intimate partner violence and sexual assault. In 1995, almost 5,000 females in the United States were murdered. Nearly half of the females who knew the perpetrators were murdered by a husband, ex-husband, or boyfriend. Although most assault victims survive, they suffer physically and emotionally. In 1985, a minimum of 16 percent of couples in the United States experienced an assault, and about 40 percent of these assaults involved severe violence, such as kicking, biting, punching, choking, and attacking with weapons.