Domestic Violence Programs Discriminate Against Male Victims

By Coalition To End Domestic Violence, 2022
"… While men tend to under-report their injuries, they may suffer graver consequences than women. One analysis of data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System- All Injury Program found that 7.9% of all men who visited the emergency were admitted for their injuries, compared to only 3.7% of women…"

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The Difficulty of Recognizing Domestic Violence Against Men

 

By Psychology Today, 12/19/2021
"…Even as we knock on the door of 2022, there have been few studies conducted that include men as victims, and those that have been completed focus primarily on same-gender relationships, holding to the commonly-held stereotype that an adult straight man cannot be abused by a female partner…"

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Men’s Aid received 8,000 contacts last year — and 94% of their abusers were women

By Irish Examiner, 01/02/2022
 
"…The support service for male victims of domestic violence has recorded a 60% increase in calls in the past year. Men’s Aid revealed that approximately 8,000 contacts to the service were received since January 1, 2021 — up from just over 5,000 in 2020…"

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South Carolina law banning same-sex couples from domestic violence relief tools has been declared unconstitutional — but it’s still on the books

By WBTW, 11/29/2021
"…A 2017 legal case declared that South Carolina’s law barring same-sex couples from receiving domestic violence services – including an order of protection – is unconstitutional. However, years after a judge made that ruling, the law remains on the books…"

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Conviction overturned in 1981 rape of author Alice Sebold

By PBS, 11/23/2021
"…A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail…"

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Male rape: Cloaked beneath the cloud of masculinity

By Sunday Guardian Live 11/27/2021
"…Statistical Data about sexual violence against Men is still a distant dream in many countries, esp. in Developing and Under-Developed Countries. According to Psychologist Dr. Sarah Crome, for every reported case of male rape, there are another ten which go unreported…"

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‘Depraved and calculated’: Jennifer Faith charged with murder-for-hire in husband’s death

By Rachel Stone – Oak Cliff 09/29/2021
"… Federal authorities say the Oak Cliff woman whose husband was gunned down while they were walking their dogs in South Winnetka on the morning after their 15th wedding anniversary orchestrated the man’s death…"
 

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