Incidents of domestic violence have fallen by 64 per cent since 1997 the latest British Crime Survey (BCS) figures have revealed
Posted on July 24, 2009
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Minister for Women and Equality, Harriet Harman, welcomed the progress at the Women’s National Commission 40th anniversary celebration in London.
“Since 1997, we have made tackling violence a priority. We have toughened the law, increased sentences and made police, courts and the criminal justice system deal with violence against women in a more sensitive and effective way,” Ms Harman said.
The BCS figures includes crimes not reported to the police, providing a better reflection of the scale of domestic violence, something which people may not feel they are able to officially report.
The 2008/09 BCS shows that:
• In 2008/09, domestic violence accounted for 31 per cent of incidents of violence against women. This is equivalent to approximately 226,000 incidents of domestic violence against women.
• In 2008/09, women have been the victims of nearly eight out of ten incidents of domestic violence. This is the same level as 2004/05.
• Around 28 per cent of women have experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16. This is equivalent to approximately four and half million female victims of domestic abuse.
Extract from http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=9112
And on the BBC:
Other violent offences were up, however, including a 5% increase in the number of women raped to 12,165.
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8153392.stm
You can download the report British Crime Survey, England & Wales 2008/09 (1.2Mb pdf) from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/16_07_09_bcs.pdf
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