The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Victimization by Sexual Identity

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• Personal Author:
  Chen, Jieru ; Khatiwada, Srijana ; Chen, May S. ; Smith, Sharon G. ; Leemis, Ruth W. ; Friar, Norah W. ; Basile, Kathleen C. ; Kresnow, Marcie-jo
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.). Division of Violence Prevention
• Description:
  This report fills gaps in the monitoring of lifetime experiences of sexual violence (SV); stalking; intimate partner-perpetrated contact sexual violence (CSV), physical violence (PV), and/or stalking, and intimate partner-perpetrated psychological aggression in the U.S. population for women and men separately by sexual identity. In addition, the report includes prevalence estimates of the various forms of violence by race/ethnicity and by sexual identity. This report also reveals key victim and perpetrator characteristics by sexual identity that were not reported before. These characteristics include type of perpetrator, sex of perpetrator, and age at first victimization. Furthermore, the report highlights the experiences of health issues and activity limitations among victims of intimate partner-perpetrated CSV, PV, and/or stalking by sexual identity. SV, stalking, and intimate partner violence (IPV) are serious public health problems that can have lasting psychological and physical health consequences for victims, regardless of sexual orientation, age, race, or ethnicity. However, certain groups are especially affected by these forms of violence. Among U.S. adults, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals bear a disproportionately high burden of violence victimization relative to their heterosexual peers. Compared with heterosexual women, bisexual women have significantly higher prevalence of rape, CSV, and stalking in their lifetimes. Bisexual women also have reported significantly higher prevalence of a composite measure of intimate partner-perpetrated CSV, PV, and/or stalking, and intimate partner-perpetrated psychological aggression in their lifetimes compared with heterosexual women. National data additionally show that compared with heterosexual women, lesbian women had significantly higher lifetime prevalence of CSV, unwanted sexual contact, non-contact unwanted sexual experiences, and intimate partner-perpetrated psychological aggression in their lifetimes. Among men, both bisexual and gay men reported significantly higher lifetime prevalence of CSV, noncontact unwanted sexual experiences, sexual coercion, and unwanted sexual contact than did heterosexual men. Additionally, gay men report significantly higher prevalence of stalking victimization in their lifetimes compared with heterosexual men. Compared with gender-conforming individuals, transgender people were at significantly higher risk for emotional abuse, physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence. In addition, research shows that violence against transgender people starts early in life, and that this threat lasts throughout their lives. In a systematic review and meta-analysis of articles from 74 unique datasets, researchers found that compared with cisgender individuals, transgender individuals were more than two times more likely to experience physical and sexual IPV.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Bullying Data Collection / Methods Domestic Violence Gender Identity Health Communication Health Surveys Interpersonal Relations Intimate Partner Violence Intimate Partner Violence / Statistics & Numerical Data Sex Offenses Sexual Behavior Sexual Partners Spouse Abuse / Prevention & Control Stalking

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• Keywords:
  NISVS
• Source:
  National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)
• Series:
  National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.) (NCIPC)
• Division:
  DVP - Division of Violence Prevention
• Topic:
  Injury, Violence, & Safety
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  69 pdf pages
• Citation:
  Suggested Citation: Chen, J., Khatiwada, S., Chen, M. S., Smith, S. G., Leemis, R. W., Friar, N., Basile, K. C., and Kresnow, M. (2023). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 2016/2017: Report on Victimization by Sexual Identity. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ce3a28eba68aa8e8ed07d9c507a198de2ad16d35f707797132b260535cafa892a358be7b67f0f02b4bc4d849f6c49cdf3c6d76c5aefa9866c85a25768325f41d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/98137/cdc_98137_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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