Our thanks to Danuta for this, a MailOnline article which is remarkable for its depth of reporting, as well as for being written by a male journalist – Richard Spillett – a rare thing in the field of reporting on Domestic Abuse. The first photograph is of a woman assaulting a man, again a rare thing.
It’s a lengthy piece, but well worth the effort of reading in full. For me, one if the most interesting Figures was Fig.15, shortly into the article. It’s titled, ‘The sex of victims and defendants in domestic abuse-related cases in England and Wales, year ending March 2017’. The text beneath the bar chart:
Despite the high number of male victims, CPS stats show men are the defendants in a high proportion of cases and women are the complainants
Polly Neate, for many years the Chief Executive of Women’s Aid, left the organization earlier this year. Her successor is clearly made of the same cloth:
Katie Ghose, chief executive of domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid, said ONS data cannot currently offer the ‘full picture’.
She said: ‘Domestic abuse by its very nature, hidden behind closed doors, is hard to capture in statistics alone.
‘Survivors often do not involve official bodies as it takes great courage to report abuse to the police; some women [J4MB emphasis] will never speak out because they don’t know if they will be believed, are not given the space to make the call or fear the repercussions if they do report the perpetrator to the police.’
Justice for Men & Boys 
“Domestic abuse by its very nature, hidden behind closed doors, is hard to capture in statistics alone.” Especially when those statistics prove that Domestic Abuse isn’t “gendered” nor is it a growing “epidemic”. What the stats do indeed show, using the SJW’s own terminology, is that male DA is far more likely to go unreported to authorities and therefore less likely to be dealt with. The Equality Act response to this evidence of an equality group being less well served would be to put in some “positive action” to increase awareness and reporting by males to at least reach similar levels to women. And being fair one or two Police forces have done this over the years. Yet this is opposed by the feminist “industry”. The most obvious reason is (as Polly Neate said over a decade ago) that it may divert funds from the well funded Women’s organisations. The other is the immense utility of maintaining the narrative of brutish men, as reducing Violence Against Women gets linked to arguments for things as diverse as Feminist teaching in schools to (improbably) the “need” for women in Parliament or Board Rooms. In a gynocentric society the image of brutish man in “wife beater” vest or lascivious fat middle aged businessman or politician still speeds through all manner of unrelated privileges for women.
And it is gratifying to read such a detailed analysis.
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Unfortunately before we get equal rights in the justice system, its going to take the retirement or firing of this generation of wymin’s studies activists, and all the ones who came before them. They are too steeped in the “man bad, women good/victim” mentality to ever change.
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“Survivors often do not involve official bodies as it takes great courage to report abuse to the police;”
yes it does,
it took me years to report it, its a pity that their emphasis is on women rather than people.
I was given a statistic two weeks ago on a DA course, that in the last year the number of women arrested for DA( in the south east) was much higher than men( I believe in the region of double of that of men). The issue of course is that even if the police( at grassroots level) were better at dealing with DA in a gender neutral approach, than higher up in the police organization and of course the team “blinkers” the CPS. it has already raised many times that men won’t report for fear of not being believed.
Mike I don’t know if you read the report prepared by families needs fathers( wales) from late 2015. it makes sobering reading about the way men( and in particular fathers) are mistreated by the police, the judiciary and the DA support services…
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