NCJ Number
145058
Date Published
1992
Length
15 pages
Annotation
In Connecticut, there were 20,322 reported incidents of family violence in 1991 in which at least one person was arrested. This figure represented a decrease of 6.4 percent from the previous year.
Abstract
Nearly 90 percent of arrests were on charges of assault, breach of peace, or disorderly conduct; almost 82 percent of victims were female and 87 percent of offenders were male. Forty-eight percent of the victims had a "live-in" relationship with their assailant. Physical force was the most serious weapon used in 71.7 percent of the incidents, although the number of cases involving serious injury decreased 3.1 percent from 1991 figures. Alcohol or drug use was a factor in nearly half the incidents, which occurred most frequently on Sunday or Monday and between 6:00 p.m. and midnight. Children were present in 33.5 percent of the cases and were directly involved in 11.4 percent.