Male victims of domestic abuse

THE National Crime Council (NCC), in association with the ESRI, recently published the first large-scale study of the nature, extent and impact of domestic abuse against women and men in intimate partner relationships.

While some publicity was given to the headline finding that 15% of women and 6% of men suffer severe domestic abuse, there were other interesting findings:

- 29% of women and 26% of men suffer domestic abuse, when severe and minor abuse are combined;