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---
title: Myth 27.
layout: myth
---
<section class="myth">
<!-- Myth box -->
<div class="myth-vs-fact">
<div class="myth-vs-fac-box">
<div class="myth-box">
<div class="box">
<h3 class="myth-box__myth-title box-title">
<span>
Myth
</span>
<i class="fas fa-times"></i>
</h3>
<p class="myth-box__myth-text p box-text">
“Domestic violence has no gender.”
</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Fact box -->
<div class="fact-box">
<div class="box">
<h3 class="fact-box__main-fact-box__title box-title">
<span>
Fact
</span>
<i class="fas fa-check"></i>
</h3>
</h3>
<p class="fact-box__main-fact-box__text p box-text">
Anyone can be abused, that is an undisputed fact. Lots of men suffer from domestic violence. However, it is statistically a gendered crime and disproportionately affects women.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- source box -->
<div class="source-box">
<!-- source 1 -->
<div class="source-box__text-box">
<p class="source-box__text-box__text p">
<ul class="p">
<li>
The majority of domestic homicide victims (killed by ex/partner or a family member) for the year ending March 2017 to the year ending March 2019 were female (77% or 274 victims) and most of the suspects were male (263 out of 274; 96%). Of the 83 male
victims of domestic homicide, the suspect was female in 39 cases, and male in 44 cases. (ONS, 2020A)
</li>
<li>
Over the three-year period April 2016 to March 2019, a total of 222 women were killed by a partner or ex-partner. The majority of suspects were male (218, 98%). This means that during this time period, an average of three women every fortnight were murdered
by their male partner or ex-partner. (ONS, 2020B)
</li>
<li>
Over 80% (83%) of high frequency victims (more than 10 crimes) are women. (From a study of data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, a nationally representative household survey.) (Walby & Towers, 2018)
</li>
<li>
The large majority of defendants in domestic abuse-related prosecutions in the year ending March 2020 were recorded as male (92%) and the majority of the victims recorded as female (77%, compared with compared with 16% who were male). The sex of the victim
was not recorded in 7% of prosecutions. If these missing data were excluded from analysis, then it would be 82% female victims and 18% male victims (ONS, 2020C).
</li>
</ul>
<div class="source-box__text-box__text__src">
<p class="source-word p">
Source :
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://www.womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-domestic-abuse/domestic-abuse-is-a-gendered-crime/">
“Domestic abuse is a gendered crime” Women’s Aid UK
</a>
</p>
</div>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</section>