UK: Women three times more likely to be arrested for domestic violence

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-09-01 02:55

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men are responsible for most cases of domestic violence, but women are three times more likely to be arrested for incidents of abuse, research reveals today.

A report into domestic abuse and gender by Bristol University found that the majority of cases involved alcohol misuse, that women were more likely to use a weapon to protect themselves and that children were present in the majority of cases.

Previous research has shown that the vast majority of domestic violence perpetrators recorded by the police are men (92%) and their victims mainly female (91%), with many more repeat incidents recorded for male than female perpetrators. While the majority of incidents of domestic violence recorded by the police involve male-to-female abuse, little is known about the nature of incidents where men are recorded as victims and women as perpetrators, nor about the circumstances where both partners are recorded as perpetrators.'

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Hello,

the article on women's arrests for domestic violence says,

" little is known about the nature of incidents where men are recorded as victims and women as perpetrators, nor about the circumstances where both partners are recorded as perpetrators.'"

That is pure hogwash. Lot's of stuff has been known about that, and has been known for a long time. Also, it has been known for decades that men and women intiate DV at approximately equal rates.

Here [link provided] on Dr. Martin Fiebert's website can be found:

"256 scholarly investigations: 201 empirical studies and 55 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. "

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2009-09-02 09:24