A study released Tuesday ranks SC fifth in the nation on the rate of women murdered by men in 2014. The average age of the victims was 34.
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The study comes ahead of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The study covers homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and uses data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report.
The study says 38 women were killed by men in Oklahoma in 2014.
This is the sixth year in a row that Louisiana has ranked in the top 10 states for women murdered by men.
The group says that 1,613 women nationwide were killed by men in single victim-single offender incidents in 2014 – a rate of about one per 100,000.
According to the study, SC had 43 female homicide victims in the recent data – a rate of 1.73 homicides by men per 100,000 women.
“Nine out of 10 victims knew their offenders”. Among the SC women who where murdered by someone they knew, 15 victims were killed with guns and 11 victims were shot and killed with handguns. “Local, state, and national policymakers must make preventing domestic violence a priority”, VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand said in a press release. SC has been in the organization’s top 10 rankings every year for the last 18 years. She says in most cases, the woman has a relationship with the attacker.
To combat the issue of domestic violence in South Carolina, Governor Haley created a task force in 2015 to conduct research on the number of cases for domestic violence along with ways to better support the help the victims are getting.
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“The study urges state legislators to adopt laws that enhance enforcement of federal legislation and ensure that guns are surrendered by or removed from the presence of abusers”, the report says.
