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Related: About this forumThe laudable drive to change attitudes towards violence against women
http://m.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2012/jul/23/attitudes-domestic-violence-women?cat=lifeandstyle&type=article
It is the director of public prosecutions' determination to tackle the myths and stereotypes surrounding sexual and domestic violence that has led to the rise in convictions
In the face of great odds Keir Starmer and his team of prosecutors have convicted 15,000 more men of violent crime against women in the pastfour years in the UK, with a 21% increase in cases to a record 91,000 last year.
Those odds include a government that has cut the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) budget by 25%, public pronouncements from ministers that not all rape is "rape-rape" and an early proposal, admittedly quickly dropped, that women who accuse men of rape are named and somehow further shamed.
It may seem odd to welcome an increase in crime but when set against the fact that every year in the UK more than one million women suffer domestic abuse, more than 300,000 are sexually assaulted and 60,000 women are raped, according the British Crime Survey, the gulf between actual crime and reported crime is surely even odder.
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It is the director of public prosecutions' determination to tackle the myths and stereotypes surrounding sexual and domestic violence that has led to the rise in convictions
In the face of great odds Keir Starmer and his team of prosecutors have convicted 15,000 more men of violent crime against women in the pastfour years in the UK, with a 21% increase in cases to a record 91,000 last year.
Those odds include a government that has cut the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) budget by 25%, public pronouncements from ministers that not all rape is "rape-rape" and an early proposal, admittedly quickly dropped, that women who accuse men of rape are named and somehow further shamed.
It may seem odd to welcome an increase in crime but when set against the fact that every year in the UK more than one million women suffer domestic abuse, more than 300,000 are sexually assaulted and 60,000 women are raped, according the British Crime Survey, the gulf between actual crime and reported crime is surely even odder.
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Nice to see this kind of effort.
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The laudable drive to change attitudes towards violence against women (Original Post)
redqueen
Jul 2012
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ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)1. Wow
Great article
As an aside, I was talking to of my of my favorite patients and her partner, both very, very smart women, and one of brought up the 'gun controversy' in a way I hadn't thought of. She said that for all the guns and violence from guns and all the debates and argument and opinions and legislation and lobbiests ect.. "I'm willing to be there are more women who are raped, beaten and killed than there is violence from guns and where is the outrage over that?"
Damn, good point I thought.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)2. I said the same thing to a friend
And got "the look" that says "stop with the annoying feminist speechmaking and lighten up".
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)3. Like violence against women
Is part of that 'ol "feminist negativity" we've been hearing about about.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)4. Yes it is.
And it makes me want to kick an old thread.