ISSUES
: Domestic Violence
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Key facts
Key facts
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Two women are killed every week in England and
Wales by a current or former partner (Office of National
Statistics, 2015) – one woman killed every three days.
(page 1)
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One in fourwomen inEnglandandWaleswill experience
domestic violence in their lifetimes and 8% will suffer
domestic violence in any given year (Crime Survey of
England and Wales, 2013/14). (page 1)
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30% of domestic violence either starts or will intensify
during pregnancy (Department of Health report,
October 2004). (page 1)
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In 90% of domestic violence incidents in family
households, children were in the same or the next
room (Hughes, 1992). (page 1)
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12.2%of men state they have been a victimof domestic
abuse since they were 16. For every three victims of
domestic abuse, two will be female and one will be
male. (page 1)
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4%of men and 8.2%of women were estimated to have
experienced domestic abuse in 2014/15, equivalent
to an estimated 600,000 male victims and 1.3 million
female victims. (page 1)
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The British Crime Survey suggests that women are at
greater risk of repeat victimisation and serious injury;
89% of those suffering four or more incidents are
women. (page 2)
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97% of women who contacted Rape Crisis said
they knew the person who raped them. 43% of girls
questioned in a national survey said the person
responsible for an unwanted sexual experience was a
boy they knew or were friends with. (page 4)
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Every year one million women experience at least one
incident of domestic abuse – nearly 20,000 women a
week. (page 5)
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One in five UK adults is a victim of financial abuse in a
relationship. (page 7)
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Half of victims experience a partner taking financial
assets without permission. (page 7)
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For women, financial abuse rarely happens in isolation
– 86 per cent experience other forms of abuse. (page 7)
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A third of women worldwide have experienced
physical or sexual violence at the hands of a partner,
according to the first comprehensive research of its
kind. (page 11)
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National surveys conducted in predominantly high-
income countries find wide variation in rates of abuse
in the preceding 12 months among adults aged over
60 years, ranging from 0.8% in Spain and 2.6% in the
United Kingdom to upwards of 18% in Israel, 23.8% in
Austria and 32% in Belgium. (page 15)
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In a survey by pet fostering charity Paws for Kids:
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66% said their abuser had threatened to harm
their pets
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94% said if there had been a pet fostering
service it would have made it easier for them
to leave the violence, and so spare themselves
and their children more abuse. (page 21)
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1.1 million women and 720,000 men reported
domestic violence in the past year. (page 23)
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Four in five high-risk victims (78%) and two-thirds of
medium-risk victims (62%) reported the abuse to the
police. (page 25)
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Nearly a quarter of high-risk victims (23%) and one
in ten medium-risk victims went to an accident and
emergency department because of their injuries. In
the most extreme cases, victims reported that they
attended A&E 15 times. (page 25)
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Research shows that between the introduction of
Clare’s Law on 8 March 2014 and 5 January 2015,
of those 22 police forces who could supply the data
broken by gender, it was only used by 64 men (4%) and
1,547 women (96%). In five police forces no man had
used the scheme (Staffordshire, Lincolnshire, Cambria,
Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire). (page 26)
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When the public was asked whether there were any
reasons they wouldn’t tell somebody if they were
worried about abuse, only 16% said nothing would
stop them. (page 30)
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Last year, West Midlands Police dealt with more than
17,000 domestic abuse related crimes. (page 35)
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It’s estimated that one in ten parents have experienced
violent outbursts from a child, while national helplines
are taking around 11,000 calls a year from parents
being abused and seeking support to control children.
(page 35)
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On a typical day, 103 children and 155 women are
turned away from refuges in England because there is
no space for them. (page 37)
