Male Psychology: The Magazine
‘Do I Belong Here?’ How well are male victims of domestic abuse served by local authority websites?
Many local authorities will use ungendered language, but given the predominant “male violence” narrative, ungendered language may not be enough to convince a man he’s in the right place.
Why do male victims of violence seem to disappear like magic?
Gage claimed the witch trials were a way that religion was used to oppress women. [However] a sizable proportion of victims of the witch trials were men.
The UK should not ratify the Istanbul Convention
do we want our laws to be built on these assumptions, or would you rather that Parliament decides which assumptions our laws are built on?
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
When domestic violence turns into legal and administrative violence
Five years ago, I believed the system would support genuine victims, that it supported ‘at risk’ children. Maybe I was naïve in my thinking
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
It’s time for a strategy for male victims of domestic violence
The campaign begins with a focus on the Northern Ireland Executive’s recent call for views on the development of a specific strategy to tackle violence against women and girls. We are calling on the Executive to complement this work with a male victims strategy.
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.
Domestic Abuse in the Year of Lockdowns: An Epidemic
…close inspection of the data reveals not only that most police forces reported smaller numbers of victims in 2020 than expected based on the trend in previous years, but more forces reported a larger percentage of male victims in 2020 than would be expected
The double whammy of being a survivor of domestic abuse who is blind and male
I felt in my dealings with some police officers, as though I were treated firstly as a man (assumed to be a perpetrator), but they’d overlooked risks associated with my impairment. Example: How can you dodge a missile you don’t see coming?
What was missing from the BBC Panorama exploration of domestic violence
The Panorama programme on domestic violence failed to adequately highlight two important issues: male victims and female perpetrators.