Are there Enough Services to help Male Victims of Domestic Violence in the U.K.?

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank my supervisor for supporting me throughout my project and giving his valuable suggestions. Finally thanks to all my friends and family for their utmost support and inspiration.

DECLARATION

I, (Your name), would like to declare that all contents included in this dissertation stand for my individual work without any aid, & this dissertation has not been submitted for any examination at academic as well as professional level previously. It also represents my own views & not essentially the ones associated with university.

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ABSTACT

The dissertation is about the domestic violence of males and the services that are available for them. According to the literature, the criminal justice system does not treat male victims justly or equally as compared with female victims of domestic violence due to existing gender stereotypes. It is imperative to examine the way in which the criminal justice system is being influenced by gender stereotypes because many innocent male victims are convicted as primary aggressors. Understanding the ways in which the criminal justice system labours under gender stereotypes has the potential to change justice system responses to the problem for the better. Moreover, understanding how gender stereotypes affect larger social thinking on the problem of domestic violence can lead to improved social and medical services for abused men services that are currently severely lacking.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Theoretical framework1

Problem Statement3

Aims4

Objectives4

Ontology4

Epistemology4

Research questions5

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Introduction6

Law enforcement agencies7

Gender roles8

Reasons for the Lack of Acknowledgment of Battered Men11

Men's Lack of Acknowledgement18

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY21

Introduction21

Discussion21

Ethical consideration21

Systematic search of the literature21

Bias22

Search strategy22

Limitations23

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION24

Criminal Justice System's Response to Battered Men24

Criminal Justice Unfairness towards Battered Men25

Criminal Justice Influenced by Typical and Atypical Women26

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION29

Domestic violence and practices29

Recommendations30

Conclusion33

REFERENCES34

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background

For several decades, there has been widespread agreement in both the criminological community and in society at large that domestic violence poses a significant social problem. Yet, the overwhelming majority of both scholarly research and social concern regarding domestic violence has been directed towards male victims. Like nearly all such resources, the website uses gender-biased language that assumes perpetrators of domestic abuse are men and victims are women. This project will attempt to examine whether there are enough services to help male victims of domestic violence in U.K (Hines 2010, p.286-313).

Men are victimized at the same rate as women victims of domestic violence because that issue is contested in the few pieces of scholarly research to address this concern. Therefore, requires widespread empirical study beyond the scope of this project report. Regardless of whether men and women are victimized at similar rates, it is clear that male victims of domestic violence receive much less attention than female victims (Ignatieff 2005, p.26).

Theoretical framework

According to Hussey (2006), gender plays an important role in the criminal justice system when determining who the victim is in a domestic violence case. The criminal justice system often operates with a gender stereotype that depicts women as potential victims simply because they are ...