• Between 1,000 – 1,600 women die at the hands of their male partners, annually
• Women are killed by intimate partners – husbands, lovers, ex-husbands, or ex-lovers – more often than by any other category of killer
• It is the leading cause of death for African-American women aged 15-45
• It is the 7^th leading cause of death for women overall
• Intimate partner homicide make up 40-50% of all murders
• 70-80% of intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the murder

Source: National Institute of Justice. Intimate Partner Homicide (PDF document, 55 pages, 1,340 kb). Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice; 2003

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