Picking up a theme in The ManKind Initiative charity's submission (link) to a Crown Prosecution Service Review on Domestic Violence, new CPS crime figures show there is a justice gap for male victims.
The justice gap is because whilst the British Crime Survey (link) and other statistics show that men make up 40% - 43% of all victims of domestic violence, why do the police report low figures (if they do at all) and why are there so few females prosecuted.
The new CPS figures (In a report called Violence Against Women - page 18 onwards - link) show that of the 63,819 (2007-08) completed prosecutions, only 3,770 (5.9%) of those prosecuted were women. This was an increase from 2,579 (5.2%) in 2005-06, effectively 46% increase in three years.
As the CPS' training on domestic violence, all their information/leaflets are women-only and fact that they only really believe that women can be victims, it means there is a justice gap for male victims of 37% (43% minus 5.9%). It is difference between the reported victims rate and the prosecution rate.
This difference is an injustice and if it was the other way round (a justice gap for women) it would make the headlines, instead it is ignored.
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