Male Psychology: The Magazine
Therapy can improve the mental health of prisoners and reduce criminality.
Grendon prison shows evidence of “reduced reoffending, improved health and well-being, and diversion from other more expensive services”
Men should express their feelings, but not about feminism. Introducing the German antifeminism hotline.
The attempt to prevent criticism of radical feminism actually poses a threat to democracy and civil liberties.
The “Toxic Male Gaze”: Should men staring at women be illegal?
London Transport trains are used by people of all kinds from all over the world, including ordinary people from cultures where staring is not seen as threatening e.g. Spain
Men’s Experience of Intimate Partner Violence: findings from Norway.
Despite the fact that violence against men has been invisible in research, in the wider social discourse and in the historical narrative about men, it seems that men are generally able to speak openly about their own experiences of violence without defining themselves as victims.
Are false accusations lies, errors, or something in between?
…she projects the distorted animus onto her male partner and ‘falls in hate’ with him; she over-interprets neutral events as negative.
Expanding our understanding of male victims of domestic abuse: An interview with Dr Liz Bates
people are more aware of the fact men can be victims of this type of violence, but this often isn’t translated into policy, practice or indeed provision of resources
Brutalised children can become brutal adults: An interview with clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Naomi Murphy.
The brutality of the person's offence is generally related to the brutality of what they've experienced during childhood.
You can’t reduce domestic abuse by telling people that life is a power struggle between men and women. Interview with Professor Nicola Graham-Kevan
There is social power, there is structural power, and there is physical power. What women have in our society is the power of the state behind them, and men do not. Men only have that physical power, and most men don’t want to use it
An invisible hero for invisible victims: interview with domestic violence pioneer, Erin Pizzey
90% of men in prisons have come from generational family violence… So when they're violent - which is what they've learned - we then perpetuate the violence by putting them in prison.
‘The Unspoken Truth About Male Sexual Abuse’: Insights from a police officer turned psychologist.
…maybe some of the men in prison were victims who had used drugs and alcohol to cope too. I knew this was a slippery slope…a slope that could quickly and easily lead to a prison cell.
False allegations of rape: the true extent remains unknown.
…lack of a consistent definition of what constitutes a false rape allegation, as well as variations in recording practices by police and others in the CJS, make accurate assessment of the true extent of such allegations very difficult.
We need to listen to young men, even when we don’t like what they are saying
Some people blame drill music – a form of rap - for the rising murder rate in London. Drill is known for aggressive lyrics about gang violence, but rather than seeing this as a valuable way for young men to express their feelings, some people want to ban it.