New Mexico

By the Numbers

Summary

  • In 2017, there were 31 reported intimate partner violence related homicides in New Mexico.1
  • In 2017, 58% (n=18) of reported intimate partner violence related homicides in New Mexico were committed with a firearm.2
  • In 2015, there were 3,402 active protection orders in the National Crime Information Center for New Mexico, 1,953 of which had a disqualifying Brady Indicator.3

Fatalities

There were 242 intimate partner violence related homicides between 2008 and 2017 in New Mexico, 55% (n=134) of which were committed with a firearm.4

Intimate Partner Violence Related Homicides
Intimate Partner Violence Related Homicides by Firearm
Intimate Partner Violence Related Homicides in New Mexico, 2008-2017

Notes:

  1. Each year the New Mexico Intimate Partner Violence Death Review Team releases an annual report outlining their findings based on deaths from three years prior.
  2. Homicides are included for review by the New Mexico Intimate Partner Violence Death Review Team if they are intimate partner violence related, including homicide if committed by a current or former intimate or dating partner; homicide with a sexual assault component; homicide of any child, family member, or other individual if killed during an incident of intimate partner or sexual violence or stalking; or the homicide of an intimate partner or sexual violence perpetrator if related to an incident of intimate partner or sexual violence or stalking, such as officer-involved shootings or bystander intervention.

Intimate Partner Violence* Victimization and Related Impacts*

The lifetime prevalence* of any contact sexual violence*, physical violence,* and/or stalking victimization* by an intimate partner* in New Mexico is:

Females

37.6% Experienced IPV
62.4% No IPV

Among female victims in New Mexico who experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, 58.0% were concerned for safety, 40.8% were injured, 21.7% needed medical care, and 16.8% needed legal services.5

Males

33.3% Experienced IPV
66.7% No IPV

Statistically reliable estimates of the percentage of male victims in New Mexico who experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime who were concerned for safety, injured, needed medical care, or needed legal services are not available.6

Domestic Violence Protection Orders

Protection Orders Active in the National Crime Information Center for New Mexico, 2006-2015

There were 3,402 active protection orders in the National Crime Information Center for New Mexico in 2015, 1,953 of which had a disqualifying Brady Indicator.7

Protection Orders in the National Crime Information Center
Protection Orders with Disqualifying Brady Indicator

Note:

State participation in the National Crime Information Center protection order file is voluntary, thus the extent to which states enter the orders into the system varies. Regardless of how each state refers to such orders, these records are uniformly referred to as “protection orders” in the National Crime Information Center database.

Definitions

  • Contact sexual violence: Combined measure that includes rape, being made to penetrate someone else, sexual coercion, and/or unwanted sexual contact.
  • Intimate partner: Romantic or sexual partner and includes spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, people with whom they dated, were seeing, or “hooked up.”
  • Intimate partner violence: The five types of intimate partner violence measured in the NISVS include sexual violence, stalking, physical violence, psychological aggression, and control of reproductive/sexual health. Sexual violence includes rape, being made to penetrate someone else, sexual coercion, unwanted sexual contact, and non-contact unwanted sexual experiences.
  • Intimate partner violence related homicide: In New Mexico, homicides are intimate partner violence related if committed by a current or former intimate or dating partner; homicide with a sexual assault component; homicide of any child, family member, or other individual if killed during an incident of intimate partner or sexual violence or stalking; or the homicide of an intimate partner or sexual violence perpetrator if related to an incident of intimate partner or sexual violence or stalking, such as officer-involved shootings or bystander intervention.
  • Intimate partner violence related impacts: For each perpetrator of domestic violence, the NISVS survey asks victims about specific direct impacts related to intimate partner violence to better understand the consequences of contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner.
  • Lifetime prevalence:Proportion of a population who, at some point in life, have ever experienced the characteristic or condition.
  • Protection orders with a disqualifying Brady Indicator: Protection orders related to domestic violence that have been identified as those that prohibit the individual from receiving or possessing firearms under federal law.
  • Physical violence: A range of behaviors from slapping, pushing, or shoving to severe acts that include being hit with a fist or something hard, kicked, hurt by pulling hair, slammed against something, tried to hurt by choking or suffocating, beaten, burned on purpose, or used a knife or gun.
  • Stalking victimization: Pattern of harassing or threatening tactics used by a perpetrator that is both unwanted and causes fear or safety concerns in the victim.

This page was updated April 26, 2021. Please note that data used are the most recent available data.