Crime In the US As crime rates in the categories of robbery, larceny, murder, rape and motor vehicle theft rise, so does violence against women. In the United States every one in three women have been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Violence against women should be a zero tolerance law, like underage drinking. Every nine seconds in the US a woman is beaten by a man in their life. This is very unacceptable. Also, on average, more than three women everyday in the United States are murdered by a boyfriend or husband. As crime goes up in the United States women are even more endangered by any man in their life because they are more vulnerable to getting angrier and like to hit and punch women so hard sometimes it kills them. Women from ages 20 to 34 are at the highest risk for domestic violence. Only about one in five domestic violence against women cases seek professional care because women are to scared to turn the partner in for hurting them. The reason so many women don’t turn their partners in for domestic violence is because of the fact that so many men get angrier and hurt them worse later. Sexual violence against women starts very early in life. 54 percent of all rapes against women happen before the age of 18 and occur as early as before the age of 12. There was an estimated 10% - 20% of emergency room visits from women who had been hurt or violated by an intimate partner resulting in a domestic violence case. Domestic crime against adults counts for almost 15% of total crime costs per year. That is over 67 billion dollars a year. Domestic violence against women needs to be stopped so that we aren’t spending that much money every year on cases like this.