The United States spends as much as twenty-five times more on researching cancer or heart disease than it does on violence prevention, despite the enormous costs of violence to our communities.7 A 2018 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine put the cost of intimate partner violence at nearly $3.6 trillion (the study examined forty-three million U.S. adults, so it doesn’t count costs associated with, for example, dating violence); this equates to $2 trillion in medical costs and $73 billion in criminal justice expenses, among other costs, like lost productivity or
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