Domestic Violence
Victim to Offender Relationships
UCR Definitions
The Florida Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Program collects domestic violence data for any assault, battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, or criminal offense resulting in the physical injury or death of one family or household member by another who is or was residing in the same single dwelling unit. Family or household members include spouses, former spouses, persons related by blood or marriage, persons who are presently residing together as if a family or who have resided together in the past as if a family, and persons who have a child in common regardless of whether they have been married or have resided together at any time.
UCR Definitions
Victim to Offender Relationships
| Spouse |
The victim and offender are married by law or have been previously married. This category includes ex-spouses. |
| Parent |
The victim is the natural, biological, or adoptive parent or legal guardian of the offender by law. This category includes step-parents. |
| Child |
The victim is the natural, biological, or adopted son or daughter of the offender, has been assigned as a ward, or by law has been assigned into the custody of the offender. This category includes step-children. If the victim is a child who is not related by blood or marriage and is temporarily placed in a household, the offense would not be considered domestic violence-related. If the same child is permanently placed in the household, it would be considered as a domestic violence relationship. |
| Sibling |
The victim is the natural, biological, or adopted brother or sister, or half-brother or half sister, of the offender. This category includes step-brothers and step-sisters. |
| Other Family |
The victim is related to the offender in a manner not covered by other relationships in this category such as grandparent, cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, etc. This category includes in-laws. |
| Co-Habitant |
The victim lived with the offender as a married couple without legal marriage. This category includes former co-habitants. |
| Other |
The victim and offender had a child together, but were never married and never lived together. |
The
UCR Manual contains more information about these definitions.
Florida Statutes
741.28 - Domestic violence; definitions
Summary
There were 104,914 reported incidents of domestic violence in 2017 with 80.0% resulting from Simple Assault.
Source: Statewide Reported Domestic Violence Offenses in Florida (PDF | Excel)
By Offense
There were 196 reported incidents of domestic violence-related Criminal Homicide in 2018. The most common victim to offender relationships were Spouses (35.7%) followed by Co-habitants (17.8%) and children of the offender (17.3%).
There were 19 reported incidents of domestic violence-related Manslaughter in 2018. Eleven (11) victims were the children of the offenders.
In 2018, 21.7% of the 1,783 domestic violence Forcible Rape victims were the children of the offenders, and 21.1% were classified as Other Family.
Of the 841 domestic violence Forcible Fondling victims, 36.6% were classified as Other Family and 26.5% were classified as the children of the offenders.
In 2018, 28.2% of domestic violence Aggravated Assault victims were classified as Co-habitant and 18.4% were classified as Other.
The majority of domestic violence offenses in 2018 were classified as Simple Assaults with 29.3% of the victim to offender relationships considered Co-habitants while 20.9% were Spouses.
Of the 160 domestic violence victims of Aggravated Stalking, 44.4% were classified as Other and 34.4% were classified as Spouse.
In 2018, 36.5% of the domestic violence victims of Simple Stalking were classified as Spouse and another 25.8% were classified as Co-habitant.
Over 25% of the domestic violence Threat/Intimidation victims in 2018 were classified as Spouse and 20.8% were classified as Other.
Source: Statewide Domestic Violence Victim Totals by Offense (PDF | Excel)
Domestic Violence data by jurisdiction is also available.
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