16 Facts Day 15: Domestic Violence & Gender

Posted on December 09, 2011 at 11:28 AM

The Facts

1 in 7 women in Ireland compared to 1 in 17 men experience severe domestic violence. Women are over twice as likely as men to have experienced severe physical abuse, seven times more likely to have experienced sexual abuse, and are more likely to experience serious injuries than men.
_{[National Crime Council and ESRI, Domestic Abuse of Women and Men in Ireland, 2005]}

In the five years ending in March 2010, more than 312,100 defendants were prosecuted for domestic violence in the UK. 93% of defendants were men and 85% of victims were women.
_{[Violence against Women Crime Report 2009-2010, UK Crown Prosecution Service]}

90% of the more systematic, persistent and injurious violence that is instrumental in the maintenance of power, is perpetrated by men.
_{[Kimmel, S., M, Male Victims of Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodology Research Review, 2001]}

A major study of police reports and crime surveys in the UK, USA and Canada found that between 90 and 97% of perpetrators of violence in intimate relationships are men.
_{[Dobash and Dobash (1992) Women, Violence and Social Change]}

In the US, the 2008 rate of intimate partner victimizations for women was 5.5 times higher than the rate for men, at 552,000 victimizations (4.3 per 1,000 women).
_{[Female Victims of Violence, Bureau Of Justice Statistics Selected Findings, September 2009, USDOJ]}

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