Was randomly going through facebook and came a link I found interesting about violence against men. You can find it here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10741752.htm?PID=4003003
I remember a while back we had a thread about violence against women and the USA's "Violence against women act". Derec and others raised objections to the name, as it seems to exclude violence against men. I think violence against men should be taken more seriously than it is. Usually when a man complains about being abused by a woman he is told to "man up" or fears that if he complains he will be charged for domestic abuse against her, regardless of any evidence.
How could this be fixed without hampering efforts against violence against women? I imagine some of you will be saying that speaking about violence against men distracts from that issue.
Among PASK’s findings are that, except for sexual coercion, men and women perpetrate physical and non-physical forms of abuse at comparable rates, most domestic violence is mutual, women are as controlling as men, domestic violence by men and women is correlated with essentially the same risk factors, and male and female perpetrators are motivated for similar reasons.
“Although research confirms that women are more impacted by domestic violence,” stated Hamel, “these findings recommend important intervention and policy changes, including a need to pay more attention to female-perpetrated violence, mutual abuse, and the needs of male victims.”
Hamel also argues that men are not only disproportionately arrested in domestic violence cases, but sometimes arrested for arbitrary reasons, citing, for example, that police often arrest the bigger and stronger party in cases where the perpetrator is unclear. “Such policies are not only ineffective but violate people’s civil rights,” Hamel concludes. “People in the domestic violence field say that ‘it’s all about the victims.’ Well, the victim is not always the one hit, but sometimes the one arrested.”
I remember a while back we had a thread about violence against women and the USA's "Violence against women act". Derec and others raised objections to the name, as it seems to exclude violence against men. I think violence against men should be taken more seriously than it is. Usually when a man complains about being abused by a woman he is told to "man up" or fears that if he complains he will be charged for domestic abuse against her, regardless of any evidence.
How could this be fixed without hampering efforts against violence against women? I imagine some of you will be saying that speaking about violence against men distracts from that issue.