Maybe time for some summary material on DV stats from http://www.domesticviolenceresearch.org/pages/12_page_findings.htm

"Facts and Statistics on Prevalence of Partner Abuse

Victimization

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

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"

TBC
R0bert

Part 2
"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

Motivation

Male and female IPV perpetrated from similar motives – primarily to get back at a partner for emotionally hurting them, because of stress or jealousy, to express anger and other feelings that they could not put into words or communicate, and to get their partner’s attention.
Eight studies directly compared men and women in the power/control motive and subjected their findings to statistical analyses. Three reported no significant gender differences and one had mixed findings. One paper found that women were more motivated to perpetrate violence as a result of power/control than were men, and three found that men were more motivated; however, gender differences were weak
Of the ten papers containing gender-specific statistical analyses, five indicated that women were significantly more likely to report self-defense as a motive for perpetration than men. Four papers did not find statistically significant gender differences, and one paper reported that men were more likely to report this motive than women. Authors point out that it might be particularly difficult for highly masculine males to admit to perpetrating violence in self-defense, as this admission implies vulnerability."

R0bert

rehctub,

"Then of cause there's indigenous DV, Unfortunateky this is pretty much a hands in the air situation, an unfixable problem that has been around since the dawn of alcohol, and ...."

Actually its been around a lot longer,

"It is not polite to say that pre-contact Aboriginal society was abusive to women and generally violent. This would undercut the long-standing official view that current violence in Aboriginal communities reflects colonial dispossession and on-going victimhood"
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/the-long-bloody-history-of-aboriginal-violence/

Part 3
" Self-defense was endorsed in most samples by only a minority of respondents, male and female. For non-perpetrator samples, the rates of self-defense reported by men ranged from 0% to 21%, and for women the range was 5% to 35%. The highest rates of reported self-defense motives (50% for men, 65.4% for women) came from samples of perpetrators, who may have reasons to overestimate this motive.
None of the studies reported that anger/retaliation was significantly more of a motive for men than women’s violence; instead, two papers indicated that anger was more likely to be a motive for women’s violence as compared to men.
Jealousy/partner cheating seems to be a motive to perpetrate violence for both men and women.

Facts and Statistics on Risk Factors

Demographic risk factors predictive of IPV: younger age, low income/unemployment, minority group membership
Low to moderate correlations between childhood-of-origin exposure to abuse and IPV
Protective factors against dating violence: Positive, involved parenting during adolescence, encouragement of nonviolent behavior; supportive peers
Negative peer involvement predictive of teen dating violence
Conduct disorder/anti-social personality risk factors for IPV
Weak association between depression and IPV, strongest for women
Weak association overall between alcohol and IPV, but stronger association for drug use
Alcohol use more strongly associated with female-perpetrated than male-perpetrated IPV
Married couples at lower risk than dating couples; separated women the most vulnerable
Low relationship satisfaction and high conflict predictive of IPV, especially high conflict
With few exception, IPV risk factors the same for men and women"

From the home page
"PARTNER ABUSE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE PROJECT (PASK)

The world's largest domestic violence research data base, 2,657 pages,
with summaries of 1,700 peer-reviewed studies."

R0bert

RObert, plenty of info there. Looks all under control.
But only 1,700 peer reviewed studies in a population of over 7 billion?

At divorce proceedings in my case she presented an Affidavit stating I followed her home one night, and I never did that. So there would be a likely false statistic for stalking.

I think a jail sentence is needed to deter a partner from lying.
Plus penalty for defamation.

At present it's too easy to get innocent males punished or locked up.

JF I'm guessing this will be the end of my posts on this thread for a while.

Whilst I'd love to see those who make false complaints severly penalised (along with EmperorJulians bashers) I do get concerned that if not implemented correctly it would make it harder for people who are on the receiving end but where the evidence is not strong to make a complaint.

The rules about determining what constituted a false complaint might need to be so onerous as to become useless to not become yet another injustice. People reporting a crime should be able to be cross examined, should have their claims tested thoroughly but should not face the risk of penalty for reporting unless there is very strong evidence that the claim is deliberately false.

I'm also concerned that severe penalties might hinder access to witnesses, friends or family who might be witnesses but would baulk if they knew the party they like more faced jail.

My thoughts on that stuff are messier than I like, possibly boiling down to a lack of trust in government to implement stuff properly and a strong belief that when government does injustice it has a dimension that's a lot tougher in most cases than just dealing with another individual.

I would like to understand the objections to polygraphs and related technology better. My impression is that they could add an extra layer of evidence even if not perfect.

R0bert