Title: Our attitude to violence against men is out of date
Headings: Our attitude to violence against men is out of date
Our attitude to violence against men is out of date
Content: Our attitude to violence against men is out of date
Our attitude to violence against men is out of date
In focusing attention on the consequences women face from male-perpetrated violence, have we missed a bigger issue, that the majority of victims of violence are men? By N Quentin Woolf 09 April 2014 • 8:29am
The body of businessman Andy Bush was found at his villa in the Costa del Sol Credit: Photo: SWNS
Men commit more violent crime than women, by a mile. Around 85-90% of convicted murderers are men, a majority of the reported domestic abusers and pretty much all of those committing sexual attacks. However – and this is the part that gets overlooked – almost twice as many men than women are the victims of violence. While as a society we rightly give lots of attention to protecting women against violence, from warnings about predatory cab drivers to reports on women’s refuges, from the understanding that it’s wrong to hit a woman to walking women home, very little seems to be being done to protect men, or to dissuade anyone from the idea that it’s also wrong to hit a man. Is male life cheaper? In discussions of domestic violence, it is often noted with alarm that women are killed at a rate of two per week, by usually male partners or ex-partners. But domestic violence is not exclusively male on female: