This Family Violence Data was copied from the Georgia Commission on Family Violence's website.

What is Domestic Violence?

Domestic violence, also described by the terms family violence, intimate partner violence, and teen dating violence, is a widespread problem in Georgia and across the country. The Office of Violence Against Women defines domestic violence as “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.” Common abusive tactics include physical violence, sexual violence, isolation, economic abuse, emotional abuse, intimidation, reproductive coercion, and stalking. Studies show that domestic violence is committed primarily by men against women. Women and men in same-sex relationships experience domestic violence at the same rate as heterosexual women. 

Georgia Domestic Violence Statistics

1. Georgia was recently ranked 10th in the nation for its rate of men killing women.
2. Firearms were the cause of death in 73% of recorded domestic violence fatalities in 2019.
3. 49% of victims in cases studied by Georgia’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project began their relationship with the person who eventually killed them when they were between the ages of 13-24.
4. In 37% of the cases studied by Georgia’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project, children witnessed domestic violence homicide.
5. In 2018, law enforcement agencies reported response to 44,900 family violence incidents in Georgia.
6. In 2018, there were 26,672 protective and stalking orders issued in Georgia.
7. In FFY 2019, there were 66,151 crisis calls to Georgia’s certified domestic violence agencies.
8. In FFY 2019, 5,024 victims and children were provided 74,633 nights of refuge in a Georgia domestic violence shelter.
9. In FFY 2019, 7,530 victims made a request for shelter but their request was not met due to lack of space.
10. In FFY 2019, there were 46 State-certified domestic violence programs.

National Domestic Violence Statistics

1. 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner (e.g., hit with a fist or something hard, beaten, slammed against something) at some point in their lifetime.
2. 1 in 6 women and 1 in 17 men have been stalked by an intimate partner during their lifetime to the point in which they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed.
3. From 1994 to 2010, about 4 in 5 victims of intimate partner violence were women.
4. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%.
5. Immigrants and refugees experience violence at the same rates as other communities.
6. 15.5 million children witnessed domestic violence at least once in the past year.
7. Among high school students who dated, 21% of girls and 10% of boys experienced physical and/or sexual dating violence. 

Copied from: https://gcfv.georgia.gov/resources/data

If you are a victim of domestic violence, you must take action. You must get help. You are not alone. The statistics above should make that very clear. 

Call: 800.799.SAFE (7233) or go online: https://www.thehotline.org/