“We want to reduce domestic abuse on the Isle of Wight”, the public health chief has said. New figures show 2,325 Island incidents were recorded by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, between October 2021 and September 2022. They constituted 20% of all police-recorded crime in that time. Data shows 69% of the incidents were carried out by men. Last month, a programme was launched in a bid to stop domestic abuse and to increase support for victims. The scheme also aims to reduce the number of repeat offenders. Speaking at a meeting of the corporate scrutiny committee on Tuesday, councillors questioned how perpetrators can change their abusive behaviour. The public health director for the Isle of Wight, Simon Bryant, said support teams were building on more ways to change behaviour, including interventions to help abusive Islanders recognise behaviour patterns, developing techniques to prevent them. They are also working in schools to educate and empower young people to have good, healthy relationships and to be able to recognise what is unhealthy. Mr Bryant said work is also ongoing to encourage more victims to report domestic abuse and he has spoken to the chief constable of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary in a bid to help increase public confidence. Mr Bryant said:
“We need a system change, so people have confidence in our police force and victims can raise concerns which are taken forward appropriately.”
Councillor Clare Mosdell said she thinks not enough has been done to repair the damage mental abuse can cause, nor what she called its horrendous effect, even where there are no bruises left behind. Mr Bryant said the specialist teams are focusing on coercive control and mental abuse. He added there needs to be a culture change across the country, so domestic abuse is dealt with and ‘eradicated’.
I know a lot of women report their partners fot domestic abuse, but when the police come to take them away, suddenly they go all “NO, YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!”. I even know of a guy that got recalled to prison because he was living on the same street as a woman against some court order for domestic abuse, even though that woman was visiting him every day, bizarre behaviour.
Us women need to start making better decisions and having a little accountability.
Then why was WoW dropped? Maybe you’re more interested in PR than people?
Was thinking the same
What about mental abuse by employers
To my eyes, any bloke that hits a woman about needs a good kicking himself, so he learns how it feels to her, but I used to work with a guy that would come to work some mornings, especially after the weekend, looking like he’d thrown to the bloody lions and lost ten rounds to Frank Bruno
any woman that does exactly the same to a bloke deserves a good kicking also – equality and all that. 31% of all domestic abuse is perpetrated by females, as evidenced in the news article
A lot of men never report the abuse of women in their relationship either it’s a lot higher than the 31% reported
That’s only the island and what was recorded, I’m sure many men who go through this stuff don’t run to the police but a woman will scream and punch at a man and he just pushes her back that domestic abuse. People need to stop playing the victim card all the time as it takes away from real victims.
Too much inbreeding, hence domestic problems on the island,
also so many unmarried mums who are with a fella one week and a
different fella a week later.
Recipe for disaster
What a very silly thing to say, where have you gained so much knowledge regarding these victims ?
What an ignorant comment to make. My abuser was my husband, we were together for 10 years. Neither of us were products of inbreeding, I don’t drink or abuse drugs, and I certainly didn’t have ‘a different fella’ each week- in fact, he has caused me to fear any form of intimacy. Abusers and victims can come from all walks of life. Perhaps you should educate yourself before making such narrow-minded, idiotic comments in future.
Usually instigated by alcohol…