Crimes Against Women
National
About 1 in 4 women (25.1% or 30.0 million) in the U.S. experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime and reported some form of Intimate Partner Violence-related impact (CDC, 2015).
Statewide
Over 17,000 adults in Virginia received services for Domestic Violence in 2017, and nearly 3,500 of them sought emergency shelter services. (Annual Report on Domestic and Sexual Violence in Virginia from the Office of the Attorney General, 2018).
Local
The Avalon Center has served 1145 clients with emergency shelter and outreach as well as took 816 calls on their helpline between July 2019 and June 2020. (2020)
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Digital Abuse
Digital Abuse is the use of technologies such as texting and social networking to bully, harass, stalk or intimidate a partner. Often this behavior is a form of verbal or emotional abuse perpetrated online.
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Domestic Elderly Abuse
Domestic Elderly Abuse generally refers to any of a variety of mistreatment committed by someone with whom the elder has a special relationship (for example, a spouse, sibling, child, friend, or caregiver). This mistreatment can include financial, emotional, physical, and verbal abuse as well as neglect or providing inadequate caretaking.
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Intimate Partner Violence/Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence is a repetitive pattern of behaviors to maintain power and control over an intimate partner. These are behaviors that physically harm, arouse fear, prevent a partner from doing what they wish or force them to behave in ways they do not want.
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Sexual Assault
Sexual Assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. This includes any type of sexual activity when the victim is unable to provide consent due to incapacitation.
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Stalking
Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.
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Teen Dating Violence
Dating Violence is committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim.