Gender, Domestic Violence, and Social Justice (GSWS 3000)

This guide provides resources for students studying gender, domestic violence, and social justice, particularly in the GSWS 3000 course.

Find Statistics

As part of your research, you may want to include statistics about incidence of domestic violence. Below are a few suggested sources for finding current statistical data on this topic.

Library Statistics Databases

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Policy Map is a web-based Geographic Information System that provides a simple mechanism for visualizing data. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.

Statistics Websites

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) Statistics
This site includes statistics by state, and national fact sheets. It also links out to other publications by national agencies and professional organizations.
CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
This site shares reports from the ongoing National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Through representative sampling, the NCVS collects detailed demographic data about victims and perpetrators of crime, including intimate partner violence.
National Center for Transgender Equality - Anti-Violence
This site compiles links to resources on combating violence against trans people, including sexual violence. Elsewhere on this site you can find data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey examining the experiences of transgender people in the United States.

Gender, Domestic Violence, and Social Justice (GSWS 3000)

Find Statistics

Library Statistics Databases

Statistics Websites

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