Study: Domestic Violence Cost S.C. $358M in 2020
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 5:25AM Observer Reports
A new study estimates that domestic violence in South Carolina cost $358.4 million in 2020. Additional details of the study, conducted by Dr. Joseph C. Von Nessen of the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, will take place today in the Rotunda of the Statehouse in Columbia.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four women and one in seven men will experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Findings from the study indicate that annually 82,379 South Carolinians will be victims of intimate partner violence. South Carolina ranks eleventh in the nation in the rate of women murdered by men, with a rate of 1.68 per 100,000, according to the most recent edition of the annual Violence Policy Center (VPC) study When Men Murder Women.
The report was conducted by Dr. Nessen, commissioned by the Jamie Kimble Foundation for Courage and co-funded by Robert S. Handler Fund of the American Endowment Foundation, the Springsteen Foundation and Domtar Corporation.
The Foundation is calling on officials, employers, schools, and nonprofits to step up prevention, education, awareness, and research to identify trends, act, and measure efforts to curb domestic violence.