Women are four times more likely to experience intimate-partner violence

Since the early-1990s, the overall rate of intimate-partner violence has dropped by three-fifths. For female victims the rate declined by two-thirds and for male victims by more than two-fifths.

Victimization by intimate partner per 1,000 persons age 12 or older

Women are four times more likely to experience intimate-partner violence

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2011.