"Crimes Against Women Grossly Underestimated, Report Says"

Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2013-12-17 06:25

Link here. Excerpt:

'Violence committed against women by men is vastly under-reported in many countries, a large new study finds.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 93,600 women in 24 countries who survived sexual or physical violence, often called gender-based violence. Only 7 percent of the survivors reported the incidents to legal, medical or social support services, and only 37 percent informed family, friends or neighbors.

In 20 of the 24 countries, the majority of women told no one at all, according to the study published online Dec. 12 in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Based on their findings, the researchers concluded that reports of gender-based violence to officials may underestimate the number of actual cases by 11 to 128 times.'

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I believe it; after all, if men as DV vics is "vastly under-reported", why wouldn't female vics be too?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/07/feminism-domestic-violence-men:

'...Men still represent a substantial proportion of people who are assaulted, injured or killed by an intimate partner (50%, 30% and 25% respectively).

If the empirical research is correct in suggesting that between a quarter and half of all domestic violence victims are men, a question follows: why has women's domestic violence towards men been unreported for so long, and what has changed in the last five years to make it more visible?'

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-12-18 03:28