AUSTIN, Texas — As Domestic Violence Awareness Month begins, the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) released new data Friday that underscores the far-reaching impact of domestic violence in the state, all while highlighting and honoring victims.

According to the council, one in three Texas women will experience relationship violence at some point in their lives.

In the past year alone, 161 people died due to violence involving an intimate partner. Of those victims, 137 were female and 24 were male, a distribution the council said is typical, according to the Honoring Texas Victims Report.

Tabitha Harrison, a policy and research expert with TCFV, said that part of the persisting problem of domestic violence is that 60% of offenders already had a history of violence with family or a

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