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Facts and Statistics
2009 National Network to End Domestic Violence Census Numbers Now Available – A Snapshot of Victims in the U.S.
The National Network to End Domestic Violence marked 2010 International Women’s Day recently by releasing a report, “Domestic Violence Counts” that provides a snapshot of domestic violence services in the United States. In one 24-hour period:
- More than 65,000 victims of domestic violence and their children received life-saving services from local domestic violence programs.
- Domestic violence experts answered more than 23,000 emergency hotline calls.
- Domestic Violence shelters trained more than 30,700 people at 1,468 community education sessions.
In that one day alone, however, 9,280 requests for services went unmet, largely due to lack of funding. Click here to read the full report. For a national summary report click here or for Alaska’s census statistics click here.
2009 ANDVSA Annual Report
The 2009 ANDVSA annual report provides and update on ANDVSA projects and programs. Download the ANDVSA 2009 Annual Report
NEW! Fact Sheets
- Sexual Violence in Anchorage, Alaska: Findings and Recommendations, September 2009
- MSNBS Story on CDC Study – PDF
- NCADVAlaska Domestic Violence Facts
- Violence Policy Center – When Men Murder Women (2007 Data)
Alaska Fact Sheets
Alaska Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Statistics
National Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Statistics and Fact Sheets
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Alaska Statistics We’re Working to Change
Alaskan women are 2.6 times more likely to be forcibly raped than women across the nation: in Anchorage 2.8 times more likely, and in Fairbanks 5.1 more likely. (Uniform Crime Report 2007, cited in a report to the Alaska State Legislature by Andre B. Rosay, Ph.D., Justice Center, UAA)
Of the 117 homicides reported in Alaska between 2003 and 2005, 22 percent were related to intimate partner violence. (Alaska Violent Death Reporting System 2003-2005). Of the 13 homicides reported in 2008, 69 percent were related to domestic and/or sexual violence. (Alaska State Troopers, Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Annual Report 2008)
Alaska led the nation in the rate of men murdering women in 2002, 2003, and 2004, fell to second place in the nation in 2005 and 15th place in 2006. (Bureau of Justice statistics, Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Annual Report 2008)
Three out of every four women in Alaska experienced, or know someone who has experience, domestic violence or sexual assault. (ANDVSA Public Opinion Research Survey, Hellenthal & Associates, 2006)
Among students in Alaska public high schools, nine percent had been physically forced to have sexual intercourse when they didn’t want to and 12 percent were hit, slapped or physically hurt intentionally by a boyfriend or girlfriend in the prior year. (2007 Alaska Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services.)