Domestic violence isn't just physical contact. It can occur in many different ways. Different states legally recognize domestic violence in different ways. Here are domestic violence offenses listed by amount of frequency.

• * Assault
• * Harassment
• * Criminal Mischief
• * Terroristic Threats
• * Burglary
• * Criminal Trespass
• * Criminal Restraint
• * Sexual Assault
• * Homicide
• * Criminal Sexual Contact

Domestic Violence Statistics

• - Percent of women who have experienced domestic violence: 25%
• - Estimated number of domestic violence incidents per year: 960,000
• - Percent of the victims of domestic violence that are women: 95 %
• - Percent of incidents of domestic violence involving non-married persons: 40 %
• - Women ages 20-24 are at the greatest risk
• - Women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner
• - Number of women that die each day as a result of abuse: 4
• - Family violence costs the nation from $5 to $10 billion annually in medical expenses, police and court costs, shelters and foster care, sick leave, absenteeism, and non-productivity
• - Violence by an intimate partner accounts for about 21% of violent crime experienced by women
• - Of women who reported being raped and /or physically assaulted since the age of 18, three quarters (76 percent) were victimized by a current or former husband cohabitating partner, date, or boyfriend
• - Percent of domestic crimes reported to police: 25%
• - Percent of all emergency room calls attributed to domestic violence: 35%
• - Percent of all women who sought care in hospital emergency rooms for violence related injuries: 37%
• - Percent of all murder victims killed by their boyfriends: 7%
• - Percent young women raped who knew their rapist either as a boyfriend, friend or casual acquaintance: 68%
• - Sexual assault or forced sex occurs in approximately 40-45% of battering relationships
• - Percent of the rapes of young women that occurred in their own home or a friends or relative's home: 60%
• - Number of women who are stalked by an intimate partner annually: 503,485
• - Percent of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are also physically assaulted by that partner: 81%
• - Approximately 20% of the 1.5 million people who experience intimate partner violence annually obtain civil protection orders
• - Approximately one-half of the orders obtained by women against intimate partners who physically assaulted them were violated. More than two-thirds of the restraining orders against intimate partners who raped or stalked the victim were violated
• - Percent of female high school students who reported being physically or sexually abused by a dating partner: 20%
• - Percent of teens who reported threats from their boyfriend or girlfriend to harm them or themselves to avoid a breakup: 14%
• - Percent of teenage girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend: 40%
• - Percent of high school students that will be involved in an abusive relationship: 32%
• - Percent of teenage girls who say they know someone their age that has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend: 40%
• - Percent of college females that will experience some form of dating violence: 19%
• - Percent of date rape victims that are young women from 14 to 17 years of age: 38%
• - Percent of all sexual assaults attributed to date rape: 67%
• - Slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12
• - Number of children who witness domestic violence annually: 6 Million +
• - Percent of those that abuse their partner that also physically and/or sexually abuse their children : 65%
• - Number of children that die each day as a result of abuse: 3