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STATISTICS
- Approximately 40% of all
victims/survivors of violence suffer after effects serious enough to
require therapy in adulthood.
- Men that have been imprisoned for
gang related violence have a 90% likelihood of returning to jail
within the next 5 years after their release.
- The 3 types of hate incidents most
reported are racial (5,396), religious (1,401) and related to sexual
orientation (1,016).
- 79% of violent children have
witnessed violence between their parents.
- 1 in 10 high school students
experience physical violence in dating relationships. Among college
students, the figure rises 22%, equivalent to the rate of adults.
- The homicide rate for children in
the United States is five times higher than the combined rate for
the other 25 industrialized nations.
- 81 percent of school deaths are
homicides
- Every year approximately 132,000
women in the U.S. report that they are victims of rape. Estimates
are that the real number of rapes is two to six times that.
- The age of highest risk for the
initiating of serious violent behavior is age 15-16.
- Husbands and boyfriends commit
13,000 acts of violence against women in the workplace every year.
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