37 per cent of stalking victims are men

/ Mike Buchanan

An interesting piece on Mail Online. Extracts:

A third of stalking victims are men, according to new police figures.

The latest data has shown that 41 out of 46 police forces across the UK dealt with 1,800 stalking cases against men between 2014 and 2017.

But it is believed that in reality the figure is much higher as around 85 per cent of stalking victims do not report the incident to the police.

According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, more than 1.2million people were stalked in the year ending March 2016, with 759,000 being women while the other 450,000 were men…

Sharon Stratton, from the College of Policing, told the BBC: ‘I understand stalking is under-reported generally, and men report less than women.

‘We must ensure that we encourage people to come forward.’

6 thoughts on “37 per cent of stalking victims are men”

  1. I saw another report of this in which men recounted that they were ignored by police when they tried to get action. In much the same way we are familiar from Domestic Abuse. “People” will mean women and I expect only mens groups not the authorities will encourage men to report their persecutors.

    Like

    Reply

  3. Thanks William, but the ‘belief’ about the degree of under-reporting has a more concrete basis, being the gap between incidents reported to the police, and those suggested by responses to the CSEW. I was amazed to hear on BBC Radio 4 – BECAUSE it was on the BBC – on the way to Speakers’ Corner on Sunday, the admission that the police record a much lower proportion of the allegations of stalking made by men, than by women. It wouldn’t surprise me if most genuine victims of stalking were men, as most of the genuine victims of DV probably are.

    Like

    Reply

  4. “Prince Philip, among others, is a shape shifting alien lizard”

    Please let this be true… It’s time for the First Lizard to give the Queen’s Speech I say.

    Like

    Reply

Leave a reply to Groan Cancel reply