men and domestic violence

Domestic violence was made a

public issue by the second wave of
the women’s movement as
‘violence against women’ and now
.has a long political history
 men and domestic violence
Research over the past two decades has •
shown that domestic violence generally, and
particularly, is mainly carried out by men.
Recently, though, some people have been
concerned that domestic violence carried out
by females towards their male partners is
being underreported, ignored or covered up
 While there is evidence that both men and •
women are abusive in domestic relationships,
most data show that men are more likely than
women to be violent towards their partners. The
findings of research differ greatly according to
the way the research is done, but they clearly
show that the nature and results of men’s
violence are different to that of women’s violence
in a number of significant ways. In particular
 men’s violence is more severe, •
and more likely to inflict severe
;injury
women are more likely to be •
killed by current or former male
partners than by anyone else; and
less than 10% of Australian male •
homicides are carried out by an
intimate partner. When women do
kill their male partners, there is a
history of domestic violence in
.more than 70% of cases
Studies have proven that women have the propensity
to be equally violent as men for the same reasons as
male offenders. According to Straus & Gelles

( 1986 ), the National Family Violence Survey

revealed that, “4.8% of men, or 2.6 million men
nationwide, reported being victims of severe intimate
partner violence by their wives, violence that includes
acts of punching, kicking, beating up, and using a knife
or gun
 Discussion on the Facts<br />Women are not
the only victims of domestic violence, “it is a
gross error to conceptualize and classify
spousal violence as a woman’s issue rather
than a human issue (Neely & Robinson-
Simpson, 2001).” <br />There is little research
on how often females perpetrate violence
against males that have victimized them in
;the past
 Conclusions<br /> Society views men as
the physically stronger sex, and females
as physically weaker; therefore, men are
initially assumed the perpetrators in
responses to domestic violence.
“Feminist typically argue that intimate
partner violence is committed only by
men against women (Hines, Brown &
Dunning, 2007).” Will society’s view on
the crime, domestic violence against men
have an effect on the number of times
?reported