Domestic violence: Male victims reluctance to report the crime

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Domestic violence is one of the cases dealt with by the police on daily basis. While most of the victims of this abuse are often perceived as women, the perpetrators are often seen as men. However, a recent study shows that these statistics may be misleading, and that men may suffer domestic violence almost as much as women. One million two hundred thousand (1.2 m) women suffer domestic violence annually compared with 780, 000 men who suffer similar ordeals. If these statistics are correct why are male victims of domestic violence not known to the authorities?

Male victims of domestic abuse may not come forward to report their victimization because of the issue of believability. People report cases of abuse to the authorities if they know that the authorities will believe them. Male victims of domestic abuse do not report their victimization because the authorities cannot believe them. The tendency not to believe men who report domestic abuse may stem from the fact that men are always physically bigger than women. This physical outlook tends to give the impression that men are strong while women are weak. Therefore, it is not conceivable that men can suffer domestic violence at the hands of weak their wives.

Lack of adequate information about male victims of domestic violence can also be a function of men tendency to preserve their masculinity. Men identify themselves in terms of their power and dominance - masculinity. Any man who does not show or pretend to have these attributes is considered to be weak and not to be a real man. A male victim of domestic abuse would not like to be perceived as such a weak and an unreal man. He would try his best to maintain his false masculinity by not reporting his victimization.

Like domestic violence against women, domestic violence against men is often perpetuated within the relationship. That is, male victims of domestic abuse suffer such violence at the hands of their partners. Men who are most at risk of experiencing violence in their relationship are largely those in a homosexual relationship or elderly men who are married to very young women. The way that society tends to frown upon such relationships makes it very hard for these men to report the abuse.

This evidence shows that the authorities should dispel the myth that men are not usually the victims of domestic violence who can be afforded the same rights and privileges as female victims of domestic violence. They should make provisions for male victims of domestic violence just like they do for female victims of domestic violence. There is no doubt that many male victims of domestic violence will be willing to come forward to report such victimization if they are treated like their female counterparts.

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