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A report released today by the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice shows that domestic violence incidents in the U.S. increased by 8.1% following the imposition of lockdown orders during the 2020 pandemic.
Arrests of adults for domestic violence amount to about 60% of all adult arrest for interpersonal violence in the U.S. That estimate can reasonably be made from police data filed through the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
A new, groundbreaking study provides extensive documentation of the “IPV-to-Prison Pipeline”—the pathways through which women who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) find themselves serving long prison sentences for acts of survival.
14 gru 2021 · The prison populations of California, Texas, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons each declined by more than 22,500 from 2019 to 2020, accounting for 33% of the total prison population decrease. In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992.
Women's rates of imprisonment and incarceration in jails grew faster than men's rates during the prison boom in the United States. Even during the recent period of modest decline in incarceration, women's rates have decreased less than men's rates.
Overall, 25.3% of individuals have perpetrated IPV. Rates of female-perpetrated violence higher than male-perpetrated (28.3% vs. 21.6%) Wide range in perpetration rates: 1.0% to 61.6% for males; 2.4% to 68.9% for women, Range of findings due to variety of samples and operational definitions of PV.
About 40% of violent victimizations and 33% of property victimizations were reported to police in 2020. A smaller share of intimate partner victimizations were reported to police in 2020 (41%) than in 2019 (58%). The rate of violent victimization against persons ages 12 to 17 declined 51% from 2019 to 2020.
