Reports

Contents
Acknowledgements
Case and Statute List
Introduction
1.1 The problem with domestic violence
1.2 The public perception of domestic violence
1.3 Definitions used to describe domestic violence
1.4 The problem with the term "domestic violence"
1.5 The forms of domestic violence
2.1 Diversion from the Criminal Justice System
2.2 Criminal Law
2.3 The Procurator Fiscal and the Crown Prosecution Service - the effective application of the Criminal Law
2.4 Addition criticisms of the Criminal Justice System
2.5 Scottish Civil Law remedies
2.6 English Civil Law Remedies
2.7 The Leeds Domestic Violence Cluster Courts - A Solution for the future
3.1 Government Guidance on Police Policy
3.2 Police Practice
3.3 Criticisms of the Police
4.1 The stereotypical view of domestic violence
4.2 Misconceptions about domestic violence
4.3 The acceptable level of violence
4.4 Services available to female sufferers of domestic violence
4.5 Services available to male sufferers of domestic violence
5.1 Research Literature
5.2 The history behind male victims of domestic violence
5.3 The Home Office statistics and Research Report 191
5.4 The Abused Man and the phenomenon of underreporting
5.5 Some real life case stories and the male victim
5.6 Help and Guidance for the male victim
5.7 Violent Women

5.8 The future for abused men

Conclusion
Bibliography
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