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Domestic Violence in California Domestic Violence in California WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE? Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, and emotional abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN CALIFORNIA violence homicides comprise 11.8% of all California homicides.vii 32.9 % of California womeni and 27.3% of As of December 31, 2015, California had California menii experience intimate partner submitted 8,245 domestic violence misdemeanor physical violence, intimate partner sexual convictions and ten domestic violence protective violence and/or intimate partner stalking in their orders to the NICS Index.viii lifetimes. In 2007, there were 174,649 domestic violence- DID YOU KNOW? related calls to law enforcement; many other incidents went unreported. 40% of reported 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced some form of physical violence incidents involved weapons.iii by an intimate partner.ix Rape crisis centers served 31,790 survivors of On a typical day, domestic violence hotlines sexual violence between 2011 and 2012 in receive approximately 21,000 calls, iv California. approximately 15 calls every minute.x In a single day, domestic violence shelters Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all served almost 5,800 women and children.v violent crime.xi A forcible rape occurs every 56 minutes in The presence of a gun in the home during a California.vi domestic violence incident increases the risk of xii Between 2009 and 2011, while other types of homicide by at least 500%. homicides decreased, domestic violence fatalities 72% of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these crimes are in California increased by 11%. Domestic female.xiii DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-RELATED FIREARMS LAWS IN CALIFORNIA Domestic violence, dating violence and stalking misdemeanants are prohibited from owning firearms in California.xiv Respondents to temporary and permanent protective orders, including dating partners, are prohibited from owning firearms.xv Prohibited persons must surrender their firearms upon prohibition.xvi Law enforcement officers must confiscate firearms when responding to domestic violence incidents.xvii Background checks are required for all firearms sales and transfers.xviii If you need help: Call The National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) Or, online go to TheHotline.org Suggested citation: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (2016). Domestic violence in California. Retrieved from www.ncadv.org/files/California.pdf. Domestic Violence in California California has a 10-day waiting period for all gun sales.xix California has a process by which a court can temporarily prohibit a person from owning firearms who would not otherwise be prohibited.xx DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAMS IN CALIFORNIA BY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1st Congress. Dist. 4th Congress. Dist. DOVES of Big Bear 14th Congress.Dist. 21st Congress Dist. 33rd Congress. Dist. Valley, CORA, Alternatives to Violence, Center for a Non-Violent Big Bear Lake San Mateo Kings Community Action Sojourn Services for Red Bluff Community, Organization, Battered Women and Morongo Basin Unity 15th Congress.Dist. Hanford Their Children, Catalyst DV Serv., Sonora Home, Santa Monica Chico Joshua Tree Building Futures with 22nd Congress.Dist. Center for Violence Free 34th Congress. Dist. Wmn and Chld, DV and SA Coalition, Relationships, Wild Iris Family San Leandro Family Services of Grass Valley Placerville Tulare County, Asian Pacific Women’s Counseling and Crisis Center, Center, Ruby’s Place, Visalia Siskiyou DV and Crisis Kene Me-Wu, American Los Angeles Center, Indian DV/SA Program, Bishop Hayward 23rd Congress. Dist. Every 9 Seconds, Yreka Sonora YWCA Sonoma County, 16th Congress Dist. San Jacinto Central California Family One Safe Place, Santa Rosa Live Violence Free, Community Action Crisis Center , Redding Korean American Family South Lake Tahoe 10th Congress.Dist. Partnership of Madera Porterville Services, County, Los Angeles 2nd Congress. Dist. Haven Women’s Ctr. of 24th Congress. Dist. Operation Care, Madera Center for Domestic Stanislaus, Jackson Peace Over Violence, Peace, Modesto Marjaree Mason Center , Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Los Angeles San Rafael Stand Up Placer, Fresno 11th Congress.Dist. Barbara County, Auburn Southern California 17th Congress.Dist. Santa Barbara Human Response STAND! For Families Alcohol and Drug Tahoe SAFE Alliance, Network, Free of Violence, Maitri, RISE, Program, Weaverville King Beach Downey Concord Santa Clara Paso Robles Humboldt DV Services, 5th Congress. Dist. 35th Congress. Dist. 12th Congress.Dist. Safe Alternatives to Women’s Shelter Eureka Napa Emergency Violent Env., Program of San Luis Asian Women’s Shelter, House of Ruth, Interval House, Women’s Services, Fremont Obispo, Claremont San Francisco Napa San Luis Obispo Seal Beach 19th Congress Dist. La Casa De Las Madres, 36th Congress. Dist. 6th Congress. Dist. 25th Congress. Dist. San Francisco Asian Am. for Comm. Project Sanctuary, Shelter from the Storm, Ukiah Involvement, Domestic Violence My Sister’s House, Community United Palm Desert San Jose Center of Santa Clarita Rural Human Services, Sacramento Against Violence, Valley, 37th Congress. Dist. San Francisco Next Door Solutions to Crescent City RedRover, Newhall DV, 1736 Family Crisis Sacramento 3rd Congress. Dist. Riley Center of St. San Jose 28th Congress. Dist. Center, Vincent de Paul, WEAVE, Los Angeles Casa de Esperanza, San Francisco Tri-Valley Haven, YWCA of Glendale, Sacramento Yuba City Livermore Glendale Center for the Pacific 13th Congress.Dist. Asian Family, Empower Yolo, 7th Congress. Dist. YWCA Silicon Valley, 31st Congress. Dist. Los Angeles Narika, Woodland San Jose A Community for Peace, Napa Option House, Jenesse Center, Inc., SafeQuest Solano, Citrus Heights 20th Congress Dist. San Bernadino Los Angeles Shalom Bayit, Fairfield 8th Congress. Dist. Oakland Comm. Solutions, National Council of Gilroy Desert Sanctuary, Women’s Daytime Drop Jewish Women/LA, Barstow In Center, YWCA Monterey County Los Angeles Berkeley Salinas If you need help: Call The National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) Or, online go to TheHotline.org Suggested citation: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (2016). Domestic violence in California. Retrieved from www.ncadv.org/files/California.pdf. Domestic Violence in California 38th Congress. Dist. YWCA San Gabriel 45th Congress. Dist. Women’s Shelter of 50th Congress. Dist. 53rd Congress. Dist. Valley, Long Beach, Community Resource Women and Children’s Covina Human Options, Long Beach Center, YWCA San Diego, Crisis Center, Irvine Encinitas San Diego Whittier 40th Congress. Dist. 49th Congress. Dist. 47th Congress. Dist. 52nd Congress. Dist. 39th Congress. Dist. East LA Women’s Laura’s House, Center, Rainbow Services, Center for Community Women’s Transitional Ladera Ranch Los Angeles San Pedro Solutions, Living Center, San Diego Fullerton Su Casa Ending Domestic Violence, Long Beach i Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014). Lifetime prevalence of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner by state of residence—U.S. women, NISVS 2010. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nisvs/state_tables_74.html. ii Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014). Lifetime prevalence of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner by state of residence— U.S. men, NISVS 2010. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nisvs/state_tables_75.html. iii “Crime in California.” California Department of Justice, Division of California Justice Information Services, Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, Criminal Justice Statistics Center: 2007. iv California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (2015). Statistics and Facts. Retrieved from: www.cpedv.org. v National Network to End Domestic Violence (2015). 2014 domestic violence counts: A 24-hour census of domestic violence shelters and services. Retrieved from http://nnedv.org/downloads/Census/DVCounts2014/DVCounts14_NatlSummary_Color-2.pdf. vi California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General (2005). Crime Clock: California Crimes. Retrieved from: www.ag.ca.gov.cjsc/misc/crclock05.pdf vii Homicide in California 2011.” California Department of Justice, Division of California Justice Information Services, Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, Criminal Justice Statistics Center: 2012. viii FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division: National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Section (2016). Active records in the NICS Index as of December 31, 2015. Retrieved from https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/active-records-in-the-nics-index-by-state. ix Black, M.C., Basile, K.C., Breiding, M.J., Smith, S.G., Walters, M.L., Merrick, M.T., Chen, J., & Stevens, M. (2011). The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey: 2010 summary report. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf. x National Network to End Domestic Violence (2015). 2014 domestic violence counts: A 24-hour census of domestic violence shelters and services. Retrieved from http://nnedv.org/downloads/Census/DVCounts2014/DVCounts14_NatlSummary_Color-2.pdf.
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