0 a situation in which someone is attacked and hurt by their husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend:
Our research showed that a minority of suspects continued to commit intimate partner violence, regardless of the intervention they received.
In 2008 females age 12 or older were five times more likely than males age 12 or older to be victims of intimate partner violence.
They interviewed girls ages 15 to 20 who had experienced intimate partner violence.
Intimate partner violence arrest rates have risen as a direct result of the implementation of these laws.