Stats

• Crime Survey for England and Wales 2013: 2 million victims of DV per year
• Coleman and Osborne 2010: 2 women killed a week by a partner
• Dobash and Dobash 2007: violence set of by men being emasculate/loss of authority
• Dar 2013: Hard to count seperate DV incidents as they may be continuous
• Yearnshire 1997: on average a woman suffers 35 DV incidents before reporting
• Dar 2013: DV victims less likely to report as it may appear trivial
• Cheal 1991: Police reluctant to investigate DV as it seens private, neglect darker side of the family as its seen as positive
• 2020: 7% of DV reports are prosecuted