Thanks, feminism! Male victims of domestic violence are ignored or arrested by cops

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://www.sascv.org/ijcjs/pdfs/carolettaijcjs2010vol5iss1.pdf

Victims of abuse, whether male or female, always remain underreported of their abuse to the police due to the embarrassment and culpability associated with the abuse in the society. According to Allen-Collinson (2009), few men report their abuse to police due to the fear of disbelief and support services provided. Sarantakos (2004) found that women often threaten their male victims with the fact that they will report them as having assaulted themselves, if the police are called. This affects the statistics of the male victims of intimate partner violence. The exact number of male victims could not be calculated because of under reporting of male victims in cases of intimate partner violence.

Formal social control exists through legal agents within the criminal justice system. Mostly the response of police to intimate partner violence has been based upon the social position that the men have within the society. According to George and Yarwood (2004), police have threatened 47% of male victims of intimate partner violence with arrest. George and Yarwood also found that the police ignored 35% of male victims and 21% were actually arrested instead of the female perpetrators. This is due to the disbelief that a woman could not have been the perpetrator of this type of crime and the male must be intimidating the woman to the point that the woman is attacking in self-defense.

You can thank the Duluth Model of Domestic Violence for this.
http://duluthmodel.org

This propaganda was created by two feminists and it states only men commit domestic violence - and it is the de facto law of the land.