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Black females experienced intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of
white females, and about 22 times the rate of women of other races. Black males
experienced intimate partner violence at a rate about 62% higher than that of white
males and about 22 times the rate of men of other races.
Callie Marie Rennison. and Sarah Welchans, U.S. Dep't of Just., NCJ 178247, Intimate Partner Violence(2000), available at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/ipv.txt
Approximately 40% of Black Approximately 40% of Black women report coercive women report coercive
contact of a sexual nature by contact of a sexual nature by age 18age 18
Africana Voices Against Violence, Tufts University, Statistics, 2002, www.ase.tufts.edu/womenscenter/peace/africana/newsite/statistics.htm