One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime and every 30 seconds the police receive a call for help relating to domestic violence according to statistics provided on the website of refuge the UK’s largest domestic abuse organisation for women.
In March 2023 the crime survey for England and Wales estimated 1.4 million females
Aged 16 and over had experienced violence this is a prevalence rate of approximately 6 in 100 women
A current light is being shone upon gender based violence .
For years women have been subjected to violence at the hands of male abusers with little or no action of recourse .
Only 18.9 % of women who had experienced partner abuse in the last 12 months reported it to the police.
In a report published March 2023 the police had recorded 889,918 domestic abuse related crimes however there were only 51,288 prosecutions.
The reoffending rate for domestic abuse across the entire population of the crime recording system is 38%
Between March 2019 and 2021 72.1% of victims of domestic homicide were women.
The office for national statistics published a report in January 2023 based upon research they had conducted interviewing 40 women who had fled domestic violence and were placed into temporary safe accommodation in England within the last 5 years .
One lady who took part in the research stated: “Sometimes people can forget, when filling out forms, that there’s a person there not just a process. They’re not … seeing a person, they’re just seeing a statistic and, ‘We need to do this, we need to do that.’ It’s … like a process, rather than processing the person”
Whilst another lady was quoted saying: “ The questioning that you had to go through, to see if you were eligible for help, made you feel like you were the one in the wrong.”
According to the national center for domestic violence and domestic abuse statistics uk Women are more likely to experience repeat victimisation, be physically injured or killed and experience sexual violence and 93% of people referred to there service seeking civil protection orders last year were women.