tarantella64 wrote:
You're quite wrong, AspieOtaku. It is very much taken seriously. When a man calls in DV around here, the cops show, and they arrest the woman. If a man calls with an abuse complaint, again, the cops show up, and they do not assume the man's a joker and the woman's the real victim.
I have a feeling you have it fixed in your head that DV against men is long ago, now and forever not taken seriously. So I won't bother bringing it up again, except to say that it just isn't true, what you're saying.
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Estimates of male victimization and reporting data
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As stated before, Northern Ireland police records for the 2012 period listed 2,525 male victims of domestic violence, a large increase of 259 cases compared to the year before with the effects from widespread social campaigning shown.[3] For the U.K. in general, a 2010 article in The Guardian reported that statistical bulletins from the Home Office and the British Crime Survey found that men made up approximately 40% of domestic violence victims each year between 2004?05 and 2008-09. The 2008-09 bulletin stated: "6% of women and 4% of men reported having experienced domestic abuse in the past year, equivalent to an estimated one million female victims of domestic abuse and 600,000 male victims". This figure includes victims that are children and other relatives of a perpetrator, and the study also identified that 75% of perpetrators of domestic violence were male.[14][15]
A 2014 study that surveyed 1,104 British university students found that women were more physically aggressive to their partners than were men and women engaged in significantly higher levels of controlling behavior than men, which significantly predicted physical aggression in both sexes.[16] The main author of the study, Elizabeth Bates, summarized the findings: ?This study found that women demonstrated a desire to control their partners and were more likely to use physical aggression than men. This suggests that intimate partner violence may not be motivated by patriarchal values and needs to be studied within the context of other forms of aggression, which has potential implications for interventions.?[17]
A study by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000, surveying sixteen thousand Americans, found that 7.4% of men reported being physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend or girlfriend, or date in their lifetime. Additionally, 0.9% of men reported experiencing domestic violence in the past year,[5] which would equate to about 2.5 million victims per year (using the 2000 census). The likely numbers are, as referred to, even higher.
The American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found in a 2013 report that a large number of men reported being victimized by a partner. To be precise, about 26% of homosexual men, 37% of bisexual men, and 29% of heterosexual men described being a domestic violence victim. Their analysis looked at 2010 data of over 16,000 U.S. adults.[18]
A thirty-two-nation study of university students published in the journal Children and Youth Services stated that "about one-quarter of both male and female students had physically attacked a partner during that year." Also, 7.6% of males surveyed had been subject to "severe assault". The most frequent pattern was that of "bidirectional violence" in which two partners combated each other.[4]
For New Zealand, a 2009 report by the Journal of Applied Social Psychology evaluated samples of university students (35 female, 27 male), general population participants (34 female, 27 male), and also incarcerated participants (15 female, 24 male). The survey found that 16.7% of total male respondents reported physical abuse (12.9% for students and 15.4% for convicts) while 29.5% reported mutual partner violence (14.5% for students and 51.3% for convicts).[1]
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Abuse against men in heterosexual relationships[edit]
In the case of heterosexual couples, female violence is less recognized than male violence.[45] When asked, the women generally used indirect ways to express this and suggested that often when they were violent, it was justified because they were previously victims; the idea of a "primary aggressor" comes from this. This relates the violent attitude of the women to the existence of her background as a victim.[46] Nevertheless, researchers could find standard casual causes of violence, such as experiencing this problem during childhood or adolescence and consumption of illicit substances.[47][48]
According to some authors, males do not complain when their female partner is aggressive because society may influence how they feel, or they are afraid of being ridiculed.[49] Within the sociocultural stereotype of masculinity, it is frequent that some of the victims cover or hide their suffering out of fear of being judged negatively by the rest of society, police (if they complain), or by whatever authority is charged with dealing with these abuses.[50] For some men, this evasive behavior could be justified by fear of feeling ridiculed by their friends or coworkers, or simply out of shyness with their peers, in front of women, or out of fear of people saying that the woman is the real victim, the need of assistance to abandon machismo and to act submissively towards the violence they suffer.[51]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_v ... gainst_men
12 Aug 2014, 12:16 am
