More Women Commit Domestic Violence Then Men.
I don’t really have too much to say about this but I find it interesting in that popular culture assumes the opposite.
Regarding perpetration of violence, more women than men (25 percent versus 11 percent) were responsible. In fact, 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women. This finding surprised Whitaker and his colleagues, they admitted in their study report.
As for physical injury due to intimate partner violence, it was more likely to occur when the violence was reciprocal than nonreciprocal. And while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25 percent of the time) than were women (20 percent of the time). “This is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious,” Whitaker and his group stressed….
Of the study’s numerous findings, Whitaker said, “I think the most important is that a great deal of interpersonal violence is reciprocally perpetrated and that when it is reciprocally perpetrated, it is much more likely to result in injury than when perpetrated by only one partner.”
To reiterate, women are more than 2 to 1 more likely to commit domestic violence and the men were more likely to be injured.
On the other hand I’ll be prosecution of domestic violence doesn’t reflect these numbers.
I don’t find this surprising at all. I’ve never heard a man at work say he should hit a female coworker but I have heard women saying that a male coworker deserves to be slapped.
