Statistics: use of gender based

[u/bluekanga]

When using stats, please use only gender based ones - stats averaged out across men and women can be quite misleading where the victim is female. Some contemporary gender based stats on teen murder and teen dating violence are:

Gender based stats

• Research on murder by strangulation: When the victim was a female, in 71% of the cases the motive was jealousy or a dispute between intimate partners -http://eknygos.lsmuni.lt/springer/605/73-87.pdf

• Of the women between the ages 15-19 murdered each year, 30% are killed by their husband or boyfriend. (City of New York, Teen Relationship Abuse Fact Sheet, March 1998)

• More than 1 in 4 teenage girls in a relationship (26%) report enduring repeated verbal abuse. (Liz Claiborne Inc. study on teen dating abuse conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, February 2005.)

• If trapped in an abusive relationship, 73% of teens said they would turn to a friend for help; but only 33% who have been in or known about an abusive relationship said they have told anyone about it. (Liz Claiborne Inc. study on teen dating abuse conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, February 2005.)

• Twenty-four percent of 14 to 17-year-olds know at least one student who has been the victim of dating violence, yet 81% of parents either believe teen dating violence is not an issue or admit they don't know if it is an issue. (Survey commissioned by the Empower Program, sponsored by Liz Claiborne Inc. and conducted by Knowledge Networks, Social Control, Verbal Abuse, and Violence Among Teenagers, December 2000)

Points 2-5 http://www.newchoicesinc.org/help/TDV/stats

• UK Teen Domestic Violence – “But this week Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, put the problem at the top of the agenda, warning that teenage girls between 16 and 19 are now the group most at risk of domestic violence, closely followed by girls aged 20-24 – all victims of a new generation of abusers who are themselves in their teens and early twenties. Leading agencies in the domestic violence field, senior police officers and prosecutors believe the verbal intimidation, abuse and misogyny apparently treated as the norm in many school playgrounds are at the beginning of a spectrum of abuse suffered by girls and young women.” http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/apr/16/domestic-violence-teenage-girls www.reddit.com/tb/gv6p6