Domestic Abuse

1. American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States

2. Costs of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States

3. The CDC's Division of Violence Prevention

4. Community Coalition Against Family Violence

5. USDA Domestic Violence Awareness Handbook

6. Domestic Violence and Abuse: Help, Treatment, Intervention, and Prevention

7. National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center

8. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States

Seventy-five percent of murder-suicides occurred in the home.

Seventy-four percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner(spouse, common-law spouse, ex-spouse, or boyfriend/girlfriend). Of these, 96 percent were females killed by their intimate partners.

Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.

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Source: Violence Policy Center (VPC), American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States, April 2006

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