//' Like you I expected it to be in the papers' What not on the abc Wolly?//

Runner, he's making it up... oh, never mind.

The point was made earlier that police stats are not a reliable indicator of occurrence. The prevailing attitudes to female perpetrators, male victims play a big role in the under reporting. Have a look at the nasty comments directed at male victims earlier in the comments section for examples.

Broad studies which have asked the same questions of men and women about their experience of physical violence both as perpetrators and victims tells quite a different story to the one some would have us believe.

One of the better summaries of research into DV can be found at
http://www.domesticviolenceresearch.org/domestic-violence-facts-and-statistics-at-a-glance/

- Overall, 24% of individuals assaulted by a partner at least once in their lifetime (23% for females and 19.3% for males)
- Higher overall rates among dating students
- Higher victimization for male than female high school students
- Lifetime rates higher among women than men
- Past year rates somewhat higher among men
- Higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among younger, dating populations “highlights the need for school-based IPV prevention and intervention efforts”
Perpetration
- Overall, 25.3% of individuals have perpetrated IPV
- Rates of female-perpetrated violence higher than male-perpetrated (28.3% vs. 21.6%)
- Wide range in perpetration rates: 1.0% to 61.6% for males; 2.4% to 68.9% for women,
- Range of findings due to variety of samples and operational definitions of PV

More to follow

Emotional Abuse and Control
- 80% of individuals have perpetrated emotional abuse
- Emotional abuse categorized as either expressive (in response to a provocation) or coercive (intended to monitor, control and/or threaten)
- Across studies, 40% of women and 32% of men reported expressive abuse; 41% of women and 43% of men reported coercive abuse
- According to national samples, 0.2% of men and 4.5% of women have been forced to have sexual intercourse by a partner
- 4.1% to 8% of women and 0.5% to 2% of men report at least one incident of stalking during their lifetime
- Intimate stalkers comprise somewhere between one-third and one half of all stalkers.
- Within studies of stalking and obsessive behaviors, gender differences are much less when all types of obsessive pursuit behaviors are considered, but more skewed toward female victims when the focus is on physical stalking

Facts and Statistics on Context
Bi-directional vs. Uni-directional
- Among large population samples, 57.9% of IPV reported was bi-directional, 42% unidirectional; 13.8% of the unidirectional violence was male to female (MFPV), 28.3% was female to male (FMPV)
- Among school and college samples, percentage of bidirectional violence was 51.9%; 16.2% was MFPV and 31.9% was FMPV
- Among respondents reporting IPV in legal or female-oriented clinical/treatment seeking samples not associated with the military, 72.3% was bi-directional; 13.3% was MFPV, 14.4% was FMPV
- Within military and male treatment samples, only 39% of IPV was bi-directional; 43.4% was MFPV and 17.3% FMPV
- Unweighted rates: bidirectional rates ranged from 49.2% (legal/female treatment) to 69.7% (legal/male treatment)
- Extent of bi-directionality in IPV comparable between heterosexual and LGBT populations
- 50.9% of IPV among Whites bilateral; 49% among Latinos; 61.8% among African-Americans

There is quite a lot more and further detail of the research available at the site.

Erin Pizzey once wrote that what she was seeing emerging from universities, were social activists, not social workers.

Jordan B Peterson is also critical of how universities is producing activists and the strangle hold that post modernists have on the social sciences and the law.

Our gov't departments are being filled with activists.

Employment must be being determined by leanings, which are in turn instilled in the educational institutions qualifying applicants.

Where I live development authorities focus on a return to bush and native concerns, as if (white) man has no place on the landscape, or perhaps even on this continent. The green and black tape is stultifying, with the rights of the private individual considered last.

Our pioneers would turn in their graves to see where we are heading.