Relationship/Dating Violence & Stalking Statistics

College Statistics Specific to Relationship/Dating Violence

• Early adulthood (i.e., ages 18–25) represents the period with the greatest risk of IPV (Jackson, 1999; Lewis & Fremouw, 2001).
• About 20% of college men and women reported being involved in a physically violent intimate relationship while in college (Luthra & Gidycz, 2001; Makepeace, 1986; Silverman & Williamson, 1997).
• As many as one in three college couples will be involved in at least one incident of violence during the course of their dating relationship (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2000; Jackson, 1999; Lewis & Fremouw, 2001).
• 32% of women in one study experienced physical dating violence from age 14 through their college years (the average age of the women was 21.4 years) (White 1991).
• Recent estimates suggest that between 30% and 60% of American college students have experienced physical violence in a dating relationship at least once (O’Hearn & Margolin, 2000).
• 39%-54% of dating violence victims in college remain in physically abusive relationships (B. Caponera, 1998).
• Prevalence of dating violence ranges from about, 90% for emotional violence, 30% for physical violence, and 20% for sexual violence, and 8% for stalking (Fisher, 2000; Johnson, 2000; Riggs, 1996; Tjaden, 1998).

College Statistics Specific to Stalking

• 13% of college women were stalked during one six- to nine-month period and of these, 42% were stalked by a boyfriend or ex-boyfriend (Fisher, 2000).

• 80% of campus stalking victims knew their stalkers (Fisher, 2000).