Justice written question – answered at on 8 December 2010.
Karl McCartney
Conservative, Lincoln
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people of each sex were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for domestic abuse offences in (i) Lincolnshire and (ii) England and Wales in (A) 2008-09 and (B) 2009-10.
Crispin Blunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) (Prisons and Probation)
Information collated centrally by the Ministry of Justice holds details on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. It does not include the circumstances of each case or hold specific information on offences beyond descriptions provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought. It is not possible to separately identify domestic violence offences from other offences of assault and violence against the person.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service has provided data relating to the number of persons proceeded against and found guilty in Lincolnshire and England and Wales for the prescribed periods. This information is as follows.
| Crown Prosecution Service-defendants prosecuted for domestic violence crimes | ||||||||||
| (i) Table 1: CPS Lincolnshire | ||||||||||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |||||||||
| Convictions | Unsuccessful | Convictions | Unsuccessful | |||||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total prosecutions | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total prosecutions | |
| Female | 25 | 67.6 | 12 | 32.4 | 37 | 28 | 84.8 | 5 | 15.2 | 33 |
| Male | 434 | 76.8 | 131 | 23.2 | 565 | 383 | 77.8 | 109 | 22.2 | 492 |
| Unknown | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Total defendants | 459 | 76.2 | 143 | 23.8 | 602 | 411 | 78.3 | 114 | 21.7 | 525 |
| (ii) Table 2: England and Wales | ||||||||||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |||||||||
| Convictions | Unsuccessful | Convictions | Unsuccessful | |||||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total prosecutions | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total prosecutions | |
| Female | 2,968 | 69.6 | 1,298 | 30.4 | 4,266 | 3,494 | 68.8 | 1,588 | 31.2 | 5,082 |
| Male | 45,484 | 72.4 | 17,321 | 27.6 | 62,805 | 49,843 | 72.2 | 19,176 | 27.8 | 69,019 |
| Unknown | 13 | 56.5 | 10 | 43.5 | 23 | 10 | 83.3 | 2 | 16.7 | 12 |
| Total defendants | 48,465 | 72.2 | 18,629 | 27.8 | 67,094 | 53,347 | 72.0 | 20,766 | 28.0 | 74,113 |
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David Reabow
Posted on 1 Feb 2011 1:45 pm (Report this annotation)
The gross injustice here is that far too few women were ever persued. The police blatently refuse to have anything to do with cases against women. I suspect that many of the cases against men should actually have been against the women involved instead.
This an area of law that MP Raabs "feminist Bigots" have already taken over the policies and procedures of the police and courts. I have seen first hand how easily a womens lies can have a man included in these statistics, along with his life, reputation and finances ruined. Yet the police refuse to look at her abuse of the law, the courts, police time or the man (never mind the VERY significant cost to the tax payer!). Sadly her abuse (and most women commiting abuse) will never be included.
I know everything around DV (media, feminist group noise etc) is aimed at making men look like evil abusers. Your means of reporting these stats once again implies that all men accused are guilty yet some unsuccessfully tried. Note: The law states you are INNOCENT unless you are found guilty. So your claims of "Unsuccessful" convictions should really say "INNOCENT", as I'm sure most of them are! Once again, it's a pity their accusers (mostly lying women) will rarely be investigated or recorded in your stats.
Am I wrong or is it no longer a crime for a women to waste police time, commit perjury in court, falsely acuse (and therefor abuse) a man? The police and courts don't seem to think it is anymore.
Time for a change?