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Every year, 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. This is according to a July 2000 Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey. Because there's an average 3.5 victimizations per year per male victim and 3.4 per female victim, this amounts to 2.9 million male victims and 4.45 million female victims of domestic violence each year. How does the legal system handle domestic violence against men?
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Below are facts, charts and graphs from the Extent, Nature and Consequences report of the National Violence Against Women survey.
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National Violence Against Women Survey— Report
Extent, Nature and Consequences of Violence Against Women
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- For men: 13.5% reported, 1.6% arrests, no convictions, no jail time, 3.5% restraining orders.
Average 3.5 victimizations per male victim, 3.4 per female victim. Reports: 394,411/2,921,652 = 13.5%, etc.
- Police take reports for female victims significantly more than for male victims. They do absolutely nothing for male victims significantly more than for female victims.
DC against women significantly more likely to be reported to police in the first place.
- Over six times as many male perpetrators as female perpetrators are prosecuted. No convictions, no jail time.
- Men get few restraining orders. When they do, women violate them more often.
About half the men, and over two-thirds of the women, violate restraining orders against them.
- 17.1% of women but only 3.5% of men get TROs
NVAW researchers say it's not because of barriers to men, but because men are less afraid and less injured. (at p. 52)
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