Justice For Wendy

NYS Domestic Violence Data Sheet

• In 1999, the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services received 55,558 police reports of family offenses involving adult intimate partners. An adult female was identified as the victim in 84% of these reported family offenses. NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, 1999 Crime & Justice Annual Report.

• Of all adult domestic violence cases reported to the National Crime Victimization Survey, in 1998, approximately 85% were victimizations of women by their current or former partners. Compared to males, females experienced 5 times as many incidents of violence by an intimate. Women were the victims in about 876,340 of the violent crimes committed by an intimate, compared to approximately 157,330 incidents committed against men. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence, May 2000, NCJ 178247.
  

Homicide

Of 57 domestic homicides occurring in NYS between 1990 and 1997, 75% of the victims had ended the relationship or stated an intention to end it at the time of their death. NYS Commission on Domestic Violence Fatalities, Report to the Governor, (Albany, NY: 1997), 8.

• In 1996, nearly 75% of those murdered by an intimate partner in the US were women. Greenfield, L.A., and others, Violence by Intimates: Analysis of data on crimes by current or former spouses, boyfriends, and girlfriends. US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998. NCJ-167237.
  

More Sad Facts:

 In 2001, 5,396 battered women and 6,861 children received residential services from New York State domestic violence programs and 25,625 women and 18,439 children received non-residential services. A total of 24,470 women and children were denied emergency shelter, primarily due to lack of space. NYS Office of Children and Family Services, Annual Report to the Governor and Legislature, 2001, 6-7.

Did you know there are more animal shelters in this country than there are shelters for women and children?

We Need Change!

     Wendy Thibeault

Forever in our hearts