In 2024/25, there were approximately 815,941 domestic violence incidents recorded by the police in England and Wales, compared with the 851,062 offences reported in the previous year.

Domestic abuse numbers, prevalence, types and victim characteristics, based upon findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales and police recorded crime.

An interactive Excel-based data tool for domestic abuse statistics. It allows users to explore data for their police force area in more detail and compare with other areas.

Data from across the government on responses to and outcomes of domestic abuse cases in the criminal justice system.

In 2023, almost one out of three ever-partnered Turkish women had experienced domestic violence. In comparison, only 12 percent of women living in Switzerland had experienced domestic violence in their lifetime.

This dataset contains transcripts from focus group sessions and individual interviews from the project 'Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories'. Participants were drawn from four domestic abuse service providers across Leeds, West Yorkshire and York. The focus group sessions were conducted first, with all participants from each of the respective organisations, followed by the individual interviews. Data was collected through audio-recorded sessions/interviews, either held online or conducted in person.

The project aimed to investigate the power and persistence of dominant narratives in relation to domestic abuse, as witnessed by service providers who support both victims and perpetrators. A key ambition of this project was not only to identify and analyse these narratives, but to consider how we might improve future policy and practice to change them. The key aims were to:

• Identify potential strategies for practically changing the narrative of domestic abuse.
• Apply a methodology using narrative theory to investigate the stories of service providers’ experiences with domestic abuse victims and perpetrators.
• Assess current practitioners’ perceptions of the dominant narratives around domestic abuse and identify what kinds of narratives persist in preventing change.

The project utilised a narrative inquiry framework throughout both data collection and analysis. This is a qualitative research method focused on understanding experience and which uses stories as the unit of analysis

Consistent themes emerged across all the storytellers, however, each teller combined different events, characters and elements of narrative to tell their tale. This revealed that, although there were similar themes, each storyteller had different points to make and there were important differences in the themes’ meanings for different participants. Participants identified consistent themes revealing that there is not one singular dominant narrative of domestic abuse, but rather it is multi-faceted and made up of many inter-related issues. This continued lack of understanding of domestic abuse among all areas of the field was clear, with many citing the impact of this as significant: it created barriers to support – for both victims and perpetrators – and continued to impact service provision. When it came to a resolution to the story, and a resolution to the issues faced in dismantling dominant narratives of domestic abuse, training and education were identified as key.

This research has shown that if we want to change our response to domestic abuse and ‘re-write’ the harmful dominant narratives about domestic abuse, then we need to reframe the question we are asking and, instead, ask how all professional services, police, schools and the wider public are conceptualising, articulating and reproducing these narratives.

For the year ending March 2024, there were 58,612 applications to the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, also known as Clare's Law, in England and Wales. Successful applications to the scheme allow the police to disclose to someone if their partner has a history of violence or abusive behavior.

PRC violence flagged as domestic abuse 2015-16 to 2022- 2023, England and Wales.

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Between 2009/10 and 2023/24, 1,142 women have been killed by a partner, or an ex-partner in England and Wales, compared with 514 killed by family members, 316 killed by friends or acquaintances, and 273 killed by strangers. In every reporting year in the provided time period, partners or ex-partners were responsible for the highest number of homicides of female victims.

Data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales on the prevalence and nature of partner abuse.

Recorded crime figures for CSP areas. Number of offences for the last two years, percentage change, and rates per 1,000 population for the latest year.

Firearms, knife- and sharp-instrument offences, offences involving a corrosive substance, hospital admissions for assault with sharp objects, fraud, offences flagged as domestic abuse-related, corruption, anti-social behaviour, perceptions, and non-notifiable incidents.

This dataset covers people involved in family court cases in England and Wales. Three tables have been created to join together information stored across multiple tables in the raw Family Court database: Cases - contains information about cases as a whole, including case type, key dates, related cases and originating court. There is one row per case. Events - contains information about events within a case, for example, hearings, applications, orders and administrative processes. There is one row per event within the case, which can be joined to cases table on the case_number_hash.

Useful information about the Family Courts can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023/guide-to-family-court-statistics

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The number of victims of gender abuse in Spain showed a downtrend over the period of time under consideration, fluctuating from a peak in 2008 at 76 women killed by their partners and registering its lowest point in 2016 with 49 victims. Organic Act 1/2004 In 2004, Zapatero’s government passed the Organic Act 1/2004 on Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence, a law approved unanimously in Parliament which included measures of prevention, protection and support for female victims of gender-based violence. Yet, 19 years later, most victims of gender violence in Spain had not filed a legal complaint against their aggressor. On the other hand, thousands of victims have benefited from the protection granted by the new legal framework. As of 2023, more than 36,000 women were under gender violence protection schemes or precautionary measures throughout Spain. In order to comply with the measures included in the Organic Act, the hotline ATENPRO was implemented in 2005 to offer support and protection to gender-violence victims. By the end of that year it already had 5,661 active users, recording in 2024 the highest volume to date: 18,074 users. The profile of violence In 2023, Andalusia, Region of Valencia and Catalonia were the autonomous communities that registered the largest number of crimes regarding gender violence. The most common age among assailants ranged from 30 to 44 years, while less than 600 people who assaulted women were 19 or younger. This could mean either that teenagers are less prone to denounce these crimes, or a changing attitude among younger generations. Actually, the number of underage women that were killed in gender violence assaults in Spain have remained under ten per year since at least 2013.

In 2024/25, there were ****** child cruelty offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, an increase when compared with the previous reporting year and a peak for this type of offence.

This dataset was generated as part of the Evidence for Violence Prevention in the Extreme (EVE) Project case study in Samoa, locally known as E le Saua le Alofa. The project aims to co-develop and test community-led, culturally grounded interventions to prevent violence against women and girls, using participatory and decolonial approaches that center local knowledge and leadership.

The data were collected during a cross-sectional baseline survey conducted across nine rural villages in Samoa between December 2022 and January 2023. The primary aim of the survey was to measure the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and explore a range of associated factors, including sociodemographic characteristics, mental health, gender norms, and community responses to violence.

The dataset offers a valuable source of baseline evidence on IPV in the Pacific Island context, addressing a significant gap in empirical research from the region. It is designed to support future analysis on the social, cultural, and structural determinants of IPV and inform the development of prevention strategies tailored to similar settings.

This resource is intended for use by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working in the fields of public health and gender-based violence prevention. It contributes to global efforts to localise violence prevention efforts and strengthens the evidence base for community-led approaches in low- and middle-income countries.