The Press Association - Tuesday, 16th November 2010

Male domestic abuse figures rise

The number of men reporting to be the victim of abuse by a female has more than doubled in less than a decade, new figures have revealed.

The latest statistics showed that overall the number of recorded incidents of domestic abuse recorded by police had fallen by 4% in 2009-10 to 51,926. And the number of women reporting that they had been abused by a man dropped from 44,961 in 2008-09 to 41,9927 in 2009-10.

However the number of men coming forward to report domestic abuse by a woman increased to a total of 7,938 last year. That compares to 7,361 in 2008-09 and just 2,696 such cases in 2000-0. Over that period the proportion of all recorded domestic abuse incidents involving a male victim and a female perpetrator has increased from 8% to 15%.

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