Scotland: Definition of abuse 'should change'

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2011-10-01 22:52

Article here. No mention of women who abuse men. Excerpt:

'Mr Dempsey said the Scottish definition of domestic abuse as primarily about male abusers controlling female victims "dominates" publicity materials and training for medical staff, police officers, judges, housing workers and civil servants. As a consequence, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people who suffer abuse at home, as well as their children, are being marginalised, he argued.
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The Scottish Government's definition of domestic abuse as an offence perpetrated by men against women does "serious damage" to gay and transgendered people suffering violence in the home, an academic has said.'

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'"In addition, we have funded a helpline for male victims and the LGBT youth domestic abuse project."'

So male DV victims as such are mentioned, just marginally and at the end of the article. But the article also promotes false statistics anyway with its 83% figure.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2011-10-02 17:19