FAMILY VIOLENCE - TxDPS

1 Chapter5 FFAMILYAMILYVVIOLENCEIOLENCEDEFINITIONTh e Texas FAMILY Code defines FAMILY VIOLENCE asan act by a member of a FAMILY or householdagainst another member that is intended to result inphysical harm, bodily injury, assault, or a threat thatreasonably places the member in fear of imminentphysical harm. The law excludes the reasonablediscipline of a child and defines abuse as physicalinjury that results in substantial harm or genuinethreat; sexual contact, intercourse, or conduct; orcompelling or encouraging the child to engage insexual definition and for the purposes of familyviolence reports, FAMILY includes individualsrelated by consanguinity (blood) or affinity,marriage or former marriage, biological parents ofthe same child, foster children, foster parents, andmembers or former members of the same house-hold (including roommates).

2 Senate Bill 68 of the77th Legislature amended the FAMILY Code toinclude Dating VIOLENCE . The DatingRelationship means a relationship between indi-viduals who have or have had a continuingrelationship of a romantic or intimate total number of Texas FAMILY VIOLENCE incidentsin 2014 was 185,817. This represented a per-cent increase when compared to 2013. Theseincidents involved 201,051 victims (up percentfrom 2013) and 195,511 offenders (up percentfrom 2013).2014 FAMILY VIOLENCE QUICK STATS2014 CRIME INTEXAS35 FAMILYVIOLENCE5 Victim/Offender RelationshipsThe largest percentage of FAMILY VIOLENCE reportswas between other FAMILY members. The secondmost commonly reported relationship amongoffenders and victims was married spouses and thethird most common relationship was common Violence20142013% ChangeIncidents185,817185,453+ ,051199,752+ ,511194,756+ Victim to OffenderTotal%Type% / Male FAMILY Female FAMILY CRIME INTEXASFAMILYVIOLENCE36 VictimsIncidents of FAMILY VIOLENCE in 2014 involved201,051 victims.

3 Of the victims whose sex wasknown, 28 percent were male and 72 percent werefemale. The age group with the highest number ofvictims was the 20-to-24 year-old the victims whose ethnicity was known, 38percent were Hispanic and 62 percent were not His-panic. For the victims whose race was known, 72percent were White, 27 percent were Black, and 1percent were American Indian, Alaskan Native,Asian, or Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific the number of White victims, 72 percent werefemale; 73 percent of Black victims were female; 75percent of American Indian or Alaskan Native victimswere female; and 71 percent of Asian victims werefemale. And there were no Native Hawaiian/OtherPacific Islander female victims 2014, 195,511 offenders were involved in inci-dents of FAMILY VIOLENCE .

4 Of the offenders whosesex was known, 74 percent were male and 26percent were female. The age group showing thehighest number of offenders was the 25-to-29year-old the offenders whose ethnicity was known, 37percent were Hispanic and 63 percent were notHispanic. Of the offenders whose race was known,69 percent were White, 29 percent were Black, and2 percent were American Indian, Alaskan Native,Asian, or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific examination of offenders by race found that 74percent of the White offenders were male, 75 per-cent of the Black offenders were male, 70 percentof the American Indian/Alaskan Native offenderswere male, and 74 percent of the Asian offenderswere male. Officer AssaultsA serious problem inherent to police interventionand investigation of FAMILY VIOLENCE incidents is thepotential for law officers to be assaulted.

5 In 2014,during the course of responding to FAMILY violenceincidents, 358 Texas law officers were the same period, 4,330 assaults were madeon law officers during all types of police information in the FAMILY VIOLENCE programis collected according to federal UCR guidelinesand does not necessarily conform to Texas statedefinitions. Complete offense definitions are avail-able in the appendix to this publication. Familyviolence offense information falls into five generalcategories: assaults, homicides, kidnapping/abductions, robberies, and sex offenses. Of the fivemain categories, assaults accounted for 97% of alloffenses. Information for each individual crime isrepresented in the chart on the next VIOLENCE Victims by AgeFamily VIOLENCE Offenders by AgeInjuriesFor the purposes of this FAMILY VIOLENCE report, thepolice officers who responded to disturbance callsdetermined the extent of injuries and all injurieswere considered to be apparent injuries.

6 If latermedical attention indicated that the injuries weremore or less severe than noted by the respondingofficer, this information is not included in the familyviolence report. The majority of reported injuries(53%) were considered to be minor injuries. Inanother 42 percent of FAMILY VIOLENCE reports, no injury was recorded. Major injuries werereported in 5 percent of the CRIME INTEXASFAMILYVIOLENCE37Of the apparent major injuries, Possible InternalInjuries and Severe Laceration each reported 24percent. Other Major injuries followed close behindwith 22 percent, Unconsciousness at 12 percentand Broken Bones at 10 percent and Loss of Teethaccounted for the remaining 8 most common weapon involved in FAMILY vio-lence cases was physical force through the use ofhands, feet, and fists (strong-arm), which accountedfor 81 percent of the incidents.

7 The Texas FamilyViolence law considers the use of threats andintimidation to be serious enough to report and,thus, 6 percent of the reports were listed as involv-ing no weapons. Knives or cutting instruments (3percent), blunt objects (2 percent), firearms (2 per-cent), and other weapons (6 percent) accounted forthe remaining cases. Considered as other weaponswere motor vehicles, poison, explosives, fire, drugs,unknown, and miscellaneous of FAMILY VIOLENCE InjuriesFamily VIOLENCE Major InjuriesWeapons Used in FAMILY ViolenceTypeGroup%OffenseTotal% & Assault VIOLENCE OFFENSES2014 CRIME INTEXASFAMILYVIOLENCE38 ANDERSON COUNTYA nderson CO SO ..130 Palestine PD ..227 Frankston PD ..4 ANDREWS COUNTYA ndrews CO SO.

8 16 Andrews PD ..56 ANGELINA COUNTYA ngelina CO SO ..91 Diboll PD ..19 Huntington PD .. 3 Lufkin PD ..468 Hudson PD ..17 ARANSAS COUNTYA ransas CO SO ..67 Aransas Pass PD ..110 Rockport PD ..68 Fulton PD .. 9 ARCHER COUNTYA rcher CO SO ..25 ARMSTRONG COUNTYA rmstrong CO SO ..1 ATASCOSA COUNTYA tascosa CO SO .. 0 Lytle PD .. 9 Pleasanton PD ..115 Poteet PD ..53 Jourdanton PD ..18 AUSTIN COUNTYA ustin CO SO ..42 Bellville PD ..25 Sealy PD ..31 Wallis PD .. 7 Sealy ISD PD .. 0 BAILEY COUNTYB ailey CO SO ..12 Muleshoe PD .. 8 BANDERA COUNTYB andera CO SO ..107 BASTROP COUNTYB astrop CO SO ..517 Bastrop PD ..77 Elgin PD ..28 Smithville PD ..41 BAYLOR COUNTYB aylor CO SO .. 0 Seymour PD ..26 BEE COUNTYBee CO SO.

9 77 Beeville PD ..116 BELL COUNTYBell CO SO ..157 Belton PD ..174 Harker Heights PD ..173 Killeen PD ..2,225 Nolanville PD .. 8 Temple PD ..640 Central Texas College PD ..11 Morgans Point Resort PD .. 7 Killeen ISD PD .. 0 Troy PD .. 6 Salado PD .. 4 Mary Hardin Baylor PD .. 0 TAMU Central Texas PD .. 0 BEXAR COUNTYB exar CO SO ..1516 San Antonio PD ..11,139 Alamo Heights PD ..16 Balcones Heights PD ..28 Castle Hills PD ..1 Converse PD ..41 Hill Country Village PD .. 0 Hollywood Park PD .. 5 Kirby PD ..130 Leon Valley PD ..59 Olmos Park PD .. 4 Shavano Park PD .. 2 Terrell Hills PD .. 0 Universal City PD ..194 Windcrest PD ..11 Live Oak PD ..17UT H/S Ctr SA PD .. 3UT San Antonio PD.

10 1 Judson ISD PD .. 0 Alamo Comm Coll PD .. 2 Selma PD ..33 Somerset PD .. 7 Helotes PD ..12 Trinity University PD .. 0St Mary's Univ PD .. 0 Fair Oaks Ranch PD .. 6 TAMU SA PD .. 0 BLANCO COUNTYB lanco CO SO ..10 Blanco PD .. 7 Johnson City PD ..11 BORDEN COUNTYB orden CO SO .. 0 BOSQUE COUNTYB osque CO SO ..51 Clifton PD .. 7 Valley Mills PD .. 5 BOWIE COUNTYB owie CO SO ..246De Kalb PD ..12 Nash PD ..46 New Boston PD ..57 Texarkana PD ..790 Wake Village PD ..44 Hooks PD ..12 BRAZORIA COUNTYB razoria CO SO ..585 Alvin PD ..211 Angleton PD ..147 Clute PD ..79 Danbury PD .. 5 Freeport PD ..97 Lake Jackson PD ..206 Manvel PD ..39 Pearland PD ..443 Richwood PD .. 6 Sweeny PD ..52 West Columbia PD.