According to the British Crime Survey one in three victims of domestic violence are men.
1 in 6 (16%) men (aged between 16 and 59) will suffer domestic abuse in their
lifetime. The figure for women is 1 in 4 (28%). This equates to a gender-victim ratio of: 36% male: 64% female
This means that 2.6 million will be a victim of domestic violence in their lifetime.
SOURCE: The ManKind Initiative: Male Victims - Domestic and Partner Abuse Statistics
Research spanning over 40 years has, however, consistently found that men and women self-report perpetrating domestic violence at similar rates. Professor John Archer from the University of Central Lancashire has conducted a number of meta-analytic reviews of research studies spanning 40 years and found that women are as likely to use domestic violence as men, but women are twice as likely as men to be injured or killed during a domestic assault. Men still represent a substantial proportion of people who are assaulted, injured or killed by an intimate partner (50%, 30% and 25% respectively).
SOURCE: The invisible domestic violence - against men, article in Guardian by Dr Nicola Graham-Kevan
NB: The proportion of male victims of domestic violence varies depending on how it is measured and the intention of the person presenting the statistic - with claims ranging from less than 10% to more than half.
Those seeking to present lower figures will use figures like the number of reports to police of the number of convictions which under-represent
Another approach used is to estimate the number of "incidents" which doesn't measure how many individual incidents and doesn't reflect that domestic violence is usually a pattern of abusive an controlling behaviour that often includes emotional and psychological abuse such as constant criticism, belittling, threats to leave, threats to prevent men seeing their children. The male victims of this type of behaviour cannot be measured in individual incidents.
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