Domestic Violence Your Proposal Should Identify The Community

Domestic Violence Prevalence in Baltimore MarylandName:Institution Affiliation:Course:Date:Baltimore MarylandAccording to the 2010 demographic profile data for Baltimore Maryland, indicates that 17, 931 domestic violence crimes, were, reported. The statistics incorporated three main categories of people, namely a married person living or estranged from their spouse, a male and female in an intimate relationship who are not married to each other, and are cohabitating or had cohabitated, and individuals of the same-sex in an intimate relationship who are cohabitating or had cohabitated (Patrick 2008). The data considered several other factors such as race, and gender, in terms of gender, female cohabitants represented as not legal spouses carries the highest prevalence of domestic violence victims at 45 percent. Homosexual are the least likely to engage in domestic violence with a one point nine percent. Wives according to the statistics possess the highest likelihood of potential victims of domestic violence (Patrick 2008).At least 80 percent of domestic violence victims live with their spouses. In terms of race, white people are the most likely to become victims of domestic violence crimes among all the races with 51 percent. At