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According to a 2010 national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and US Department of Justice, in the last 12 months more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and over 40 percent of severe physical violence was directed at men. Men were also more often the victim of psychological aggression and control over sexual or reproductive health. Despite this, few services are available to male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Physical violence
More men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence within the past year, according to a national study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and US Department of Justice. According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) released in December, 2011, within the last 12 months an estimated 5,365,000 men and 4,741,000 women were victims of intimate partner physical violence ([1] Black et al. , 2011, Tables 4.1 and 4.2)[1] . This is shown in Figure 1 [Figure omitted. See Article Image.]. This finding contrasts to the earlier National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) ([15] Tjaden and Thoennes, 2000), which estimated that 1.2 million women and 835,000 men were victims of intimate partner physical violence in the preceding 12 months. (One-year prevalence "are considered to be more accurate [than lifetime rates] because they do not depend on recall of events long past" ([12] Straus, 2005, p. 60).)
If one adds in rape (606,000 victims) the total is 5,427,000 women - but there is an issue of double-counting of an incident as both rape and intimate partner physical violence[2] . Of the lifetime rape victims, 82.8 percent were also victims of physical violence. This suggests that a sizeable portion of the 606,000 rape victims are included in the 5,427,000 physical violence victims. But even if one ignores the double-counting of rape and physical violence, the number of female victims of rape and/or physical violence is 5,427,000 for women, contrasted with 5,365,000 male victims of physical violence, so it is safe to say that about half of the victims of physical violence are men.
There is a significant difference between the NVAWS and NISVS surveys, in the number of victims of physical violence (4,741,000 vs 1,300,000 women and 5,365,000 vs 835,000 men), perhaps...