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Fatal Intimate Partner Violence

Started by FurryAvocado, 07/31/2017 02:05PM
Posted 07/31/2017 02:05PM Opening Post
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fvv.pdf


Females are generally murdered by people they know. In 64% of female homicide
cases in 2007, females were killed by a family member or intimate partner. In 2007,
24% of female homicide victims were killed by a spouse or ex-spouse; 21% were killed
by a boyfriend or girlfriend, and 19% by another family member.

Just one of the many reasons why our society, and the contemporary American workplace, take domestic violence and sexual harassment so seriously. Thousands of American women each year are killed not by terrorists, not by gang members, not by illegal immigrants, but by their husbands, boyfriends and family members.