ABSTRACT
Domestic or intimate violence rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. Between 1993 and 1998, women ages 16 to 24 experienced the highest per capita rates of intimate violence (19.6 per 1,000 women). During the same time period, only about half the intimate partner violence against women was reported to the police; Black women were more likely than other women to report such violence (U.S. Department of Justice, 1999).
