DV epidemic

As a result of some recently high profile (and very sad) cases in Australia it has been common for people to hear that men's domestic violence against women is an epidemic today and it is often implied that rates are skyrocketting. This of course ignores the many men who are subjected to domestic violence but it also ignores the data that says that DV has been in decline

The proportion of domestic homicides has continued to fall, reaching a historic low in recent years. It
would appear that the 2007–08 finding that 52 percent of homicides were domestic related was a
statistical anomaly from what has otherwise been a downward trend (Virueda & Payne 2010). Of the
domestic homicides recorded in the NHMP in 2010–12, the majority were classified as an intimate
partner homicide. The frequency of intimate partner homicides has remained stable and while, overall,
female victims are not as prevalent as males, they remain overrepresented in this category of
homicide

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