One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.
- Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool
A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence.
The findings are a stark reminder men’s violence against women is a national crisis and system reform is urgent.
Expanding police powers in dealing with family violence comes with considerable risks to victim-survivors, and should be treated with caution.
Police sometimes misidentify victims as perpetrators – because the real perpetrator has misled them, or because the victim is not displaying “typical” behaviour.
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