Do gays or straights have higher rates of domestic violence
LGBT people nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime
LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience forceful victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault, according to a new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Statute. In addition, LGBT people are more likely to experience violence both by someone well-known to the victim and at the hands of a stranger.
Researchers analyzed data from the 2017 National Crime Victimization Survey, the first nationally representative and comprehensive criminal victimization data to add information on the sexual orientation and gender individuality of respondents.
Results showed that, in 2017, LGBT people experienced 71.1 victimizations per 1,000 people, compared to 19.2 victimizations per 1,000 people for non-LGBT people. LGBT people had higher rates of serious force victimization in almost every type of violent crime except robbery, which showed no significant difference between LGBT and non-LGBT people.
“It is clear that LGBT are at greater peril of violent victimization, but the question is why,” said lead author Andrew R.
Domestic Violence in LGBTQIA+ Relationships
Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of behavior in any association that is used to gain or maintain dominance and control over an intimate partner. Keep in mind that the perpetrator may not immediately strive to control their loved one and it may be months or years before the abuse starts. In fact, many abusive relationships begin with an intense honeymoon period. Unfortunately, this seemingly perfect start to the relationship may lead to others to not think or discount the severity of the abuse down the line.
Abuse can consist of physical, sexual, feeling, economic, or psychological behavior or threats that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, pain, humiliate, or injure. Household violence can happen to anyone of any age, race, sexual orientation, class, immigration status, religion, or gender. For those who are LGBTQIA+ or in non-heterosexual relationships, domestic force rates are higher than the domestic violence rates for the general population.
What does LGBTQIA+ stand for?
LGBTQIA+ refers to a society of individuals that name outside of the societal norm. The traditional societal norm is a pers
Understanding Intimate Partner Aggression in the LGBTQ+ Society
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), also known as home violence, partner abuse, or dating violence, refers to the various means of control used by an abuser against their spouse in an intimate connection. According to the Centers for Disease Control, IPV includes many forms of abuse, including “physical abuse, sexual violence, stalking and psychological aggression (including coercive tactics) by a current or former intimate spouse (i.e., spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, digital dating partner, or ongoing sexual partner).” Anyone—regardless of their identity, or that of their partner—can experience IPV.
However, misogynist gender roles, racial/ethnic stereotypes and institutional discrimination, and economic insecurity, put certain segments of the population at greater risk, such as women, BIPOC people, those living in poverty, and younger adults. For LGBTQ+ people, these same social determinants compound with homophobic and transphobic stigma, creating even greater risk of IPV among the community.
Prevalence of IPV Experiences Across the Life Course
LGBTQ+ women, trans people and neutrois people are
If You’re Not Vertical, You’re at Higher Risk for National Violence
And most help-centers and laws emphasize exclusively on direct female victims
Two new studies conducted by researchers at Sam Houston State University looked at how domestic abuse affects people who've had at least one serious same-sex relationship and found that they were more likely to encounter domestic aggression than heterosexual people.
Additionally, News-Medical reports, people in the non-heterosexual group were more likely to change to drugs or alcohol to aid them cope with that abuse. They are also less likely to record domestic violence.
Here's the Atlantic with a little more context:
In 2013, the CDC released the results of a 2010 study on victimization by sexual orientation, and admitted that “little is famous about the national prevalence of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking among lesbian, queer , and bisexual women and men in the United States.” The report found that pansexual women had an overwhelming prevalence of violent partners in their lives: 75 percent had been with a forceful partner, as opposed to 46 percent of lesbian women and 43 percent of straight wom
Dear Advice Doctor:
I trust the summer is not too warm in Sewanee. We are having a heat spell here, which is the high 80s with no tradewinds. I suppose we cannot complain. I was just in Phoenix where it was 114 in the daytime, and 95 at midnight. And I don't protect what they utter about dry heat - hot is hot.
I was wondering if I could get your thoughts on the NISVS study results for LGB respondents. I am doing some work with the WNBA (fun!!) and one of the trainers wanted to cite the survey findings that LGB respondents were as or more likely to have been victims of IPV. I have always had a difficulty with this notion that the incidence of lesbian and gay male queer violence is as frequent as in straight couples. I have done a lot of perform in this area, including with local and national LGBTQ groups and this seems to be the party line without much substantive data. And I don't MIND if it is accurate, it just is not my gut feeling that it is true. More importantly, I always say that until we are totally rid of societal heterosexism and LGBTQ hatred, we can and will never know the actual incidence of homosexual IPV because both victims and those who harm them will have to come out (to thems