The team at the One in Three Campaign have been hard at work preparing an analysis of the latest data on male victims of family violence ever since the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released their 2016 Personal Safety Survey data in November 2017.
The results have just been published in the form of a new infographic available at oneinthree.com.au/infographic. The infographic also includes the latest 2012-14 data from the Australian Institute of Criminology's (AIC) National Homicide Monitoring Program.
All the data in the infographic has been checked with senior staff at the ABS and AIC.
Highlights from the latest data include:
- The proportion of men experiencing current partner violence in the last 12 months between the 2005 and 2016 ABS Personal Safety Surveys rose more than five-fold (a 552% increase), while the proportion of men experiencing emotional abuse from a current partner in the last 12 months more than doubled (a 223% increase).
- During the last 12 months, more than one in three people who experienced violence from an intimate partner were male (35%) and almost half the people who experienced emotional abuse by a partner were male (46%).
- 14% of men who experienced emotional abuse by a current partner were deprived of basic needs such as food, shelter or sleep, compared to 6% of women.
- 9% of men reporting emotional abuse by a current partner experienced threats to take their child/ren away from them, compared to 5% of women.
- 39% of men who reported emotional abuse by a previous partner had that partner lie to their child/ren with the intent of turning them against them, compared to 25% of women.
- More than 1 in 3 persons who experienced sexual harassment were male (34%) – usually involving a female perpetrator (72%).
- The biggest increase in sexual harassment between 2012 and 2016 was males harassed by a female, which rose by a massive 68% (females harassed by a male rose by 15%).
- Almost 1 in 3 persons who experienced sexual assault were male (28%), with females the most likely perpetrators of sexual violence against men (83%).
- Male victims of domestic violence were far more likely than women to have never sought advice or support, less likely to have contacted police, and far less likely to have had a restraining order issued against the perpetrator.
- 75 males were killed in domestic homicide incidents between 2012-2014, an average of one every ten days.