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Calls for policy reform on young male domestic abuse

A recently published report has called for the Government to support wholesale reform of how the authorities deal with young men who commit domestic abuse.

The report outlines the disturbing findings of a three-year study led by Professor David Gadd from The University of Manchester and Dr Claire Fox, from Keele University.

Over half of the 13 and 14-year-olds surveyed have already experienced domestic abuse, whether as victims, witnesses or perpetrators.

A quarter carried out at least one abusive act – often emotional abuse or controlling behaviour - against a boyfriend or girlfriend.

But according to the report, young people below the age of 18 rarely receive any specialist intervention, aside from ‘anger management’.

It calls for a nationally coordinated service of professional mentoring, which continues into subsequent dating relationships and beyond the period of conventional criminal justice sanctions.

In-depth interviews with teenage boys who had committed physical assaults on partners, carried out by the team, revealed few describe their behaviour as ‘domestic abuse’ or ‘domestic violence’.

Instead, they refer to ‘fights’ caused by peculiarly stressful circumstances, such as personal crises or the provocative behaviour of a difficult or uncaring partner.

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