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Domestic abuse
Statistics
Mumsnet Survey:
- 38% of women have been in a controlling or abusive relationship
- 6/10 suspected a family member or friend was in one
- 24% of victims of domestic abuse never said anything to anyone about what they were going through
2015, coercive control became a crime:
- act or pattern of acts of abuse that is used to harm, punish or frighten their victim e.g. threats
- currently can have up to 5 years jail time, but often less
1.2 million women experienced domestic abuse in 2018, only around 300 were prosecuted (0.025%)
ONS, 2019:
- almost 1/3 women aged 15-19 will experience domestic abuse in her lifetime
- 2 women a week are killed by a current or former partner in England and Wales alone
- in the year ending March 2019, 1.6 million women experienced domestic abuse
Refuge has experienced cuts to 80% of its services since 2011, with some funding being up to 50%
since 2010, this country has lost 17% of its specialist domestic violence refuges (Women's Aid,2019)
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Domestic abuse bill 2021
On April 21st 2021, the bill passed both Houses of Parliament & was singed into law becoming the Domestic Abuse Act
Some things it will do:
- create a new offence of non-fatal strangulation / suffocation of a person
- create a statutory definition of domestic abuse
- extending the controlling or cohesive behaviour offence to cover post-separation abuse
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in 2020, an estimated 2.3M adults aged 16-74 experienced domestic abuse in the last year (1.6M women)
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Materialist explanation
Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett:
- domestic abuse is a result of stress on family members caused by social inequality
Groups at greater risk of domestic abuse:
- those with less power, status, wealth or income
Criticism:
- Wilkinson & Pickett fail to explain why women rather than men are main victims
Marxist feminists:
- believe inequality is the cause
Other sociologists
Dobash and Dobash:
- men more likely to show violent behaviour as set off by things that challenge his authority
Ansura & Hindin:
- women suffered more severe violence and control within more serious psychological effects
- women more likely to be fearful of partners
Stephanie Yearshire:
- on average, a women suffers 35 assaults before making a report