Domestic Abuse Statistics - Male Victim - 2016 to 2021
Keywords
Domestic, Abuse, Physical, Emotional, Psychological, Male, Gender, Perpetrators, Men, Women, Reports, Conviction, Charged, Outcomes.
Publication Number
PUB 1447
FOI Reference Number
16250
Request Title
Domestic Abuse Statistics - Male Victim - 2016 to 2021
Date Range
2016 to 2021
Information Requested
I'm requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) regarding the following:
1. How many offences of domestic abuse (both physical and emotional/psychological) have been reported to your police force in the years between 1 January 2016 and 1 September 2021 with male victims?
a. Please include a breakdown of the gender of the alleged perpetrators (i.e. how many were men/women).
b. Please split the data up by year so I can see the totals for each year.
2. How many of these reports have resulted in a conviction?
a. Please include a breakdown of the genders of the convictions.
b. Please split up the conviction data by year so I can see totals for each year.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 12 Exemption
Information Correct as at
22 March 2022
Date of Disclosure
01 April 2022
Related Documents/Links
FOI 16250 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, however, the obligation of Section 1(1)(b) cannot be met as Essex Police does not hold all the information requested in a format that allows it to be retrieved within the time and cost limits of FOI.
When responding to a request for information under the terms of the FOIA, a public authority is not obliged to provide information if the authority estimates that the cost of the retrieval of the information requested would be in excess of £450 (equivalent to 18 hours work). The costs criteria relates to a request in its entirety, which means that if we cannot retrieve all of the information requested within the costs limit, we are not obliged to retrieve any of the information requested.
Section 12(1) of the FOIA states that a public authority is not obliged to:
“…comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”
The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:
In relation to Questions 2, 2a and 2b, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail in relation to your request for the requested period from our current systems. Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information for FOI responses. Essex Police do not record conviction data on the Athena Custody system (this is held by the Crown Prosecution Service). This request would entail manually extracting the requested data, manually reviewing each record one by one to establish if there was a charge and then cross referring on the Police National Computer (PNC) to establish the outcome and conviction data. To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.
Consequently, and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA. Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.
Having said that and in an effort to assist, although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the FOIA, Essex Police can confirm the following:
Caveats:
The data is correct as at 22 March 2022.
Dates: From 01 January 2016 to 01 September 2021.
Data: This is not a clear reflection of the number of offences where there was a male victim as the Gender Field is not always completed. Conviction data is not held on the Athena Custody system (this is held by the Crown Prosecution Service), however, we have provided the Charged Outcomes and Charged Gender breakdowns as an alternative.
1. How many offences of domestic abuse (both physical and emotional/psychological) have been reported to your police force in the years between 1 January 2016 and 1 September 2021 with male victims?
|
Victim Gender |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Grand Total |
|
Male |
7334 |
7722 |
9533 |
10703 |
10412 |
6923 |
52627 |
|
Grand Total |
7334 |
7722 |
9533 |
10703 |
10412 |
6923 |
52627 |
a. Please include a breakdown of the gender of the alleged perpetrators (i.e. how many were men/women).
|
Suspect Gender |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Grand Total |
|
Female |
3007 |
3278 |
4258 |
4413 |
4482 |
3172 |
22610 |
|
Male |
1384 |
1502 |
2065 |
2078 |
2115 |
1430 |
10574 |
|
Not Recorded |
2943 |
2942 |
3210 |
4212 |
3815 |
2321 |
19443 |
|
Grand Total |
7334 |
7722 |
9533 |
10703 |
10412 |
6923 |
52627 |
2. How many of these reports have resulted in a conviction?
Essex Police do not record conviction data on the Athena Custody system (this is held by the Crown Prosecution Service), however, we have provided the Charged Outcomes as an alternative.
|
Outcome Type |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Grand Total |
|
Type 1 - Charged / Summonsed / Postal Requisition |
300 |
190 |
247 |
280 |
281 |
125 |
1423 |
|
Type 1A - Charged / Summons - alternate offence. Offender has been charged under the alternate offence rule. |
96 |
117 |
103 |
70 |
130 |
58 |
574 |
|
Grand Total |
396 |
307 |
350 |
350 |
411 |
183 |
1997 |
a. Please include a breakdown of the genders of the convictions.
Essex Police do not record conviction data on the Athena Custody system (this is held by the Crown Prosecution Service), however, we have provided the Charged Gender breakdowns as an alternative.
|
Charged Gender |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Grand Total |
|
Female |
179 |
124 |
140 |
134 |
184 |
76 |
837 |
|
Male |
212 |
173 |
190 |
201 |
214 |
103 |
1093 |
|
Not Recorded |
5 |
10 |
20 |
15 |
13 |
4 |
67 |
|
Grand Total |
396 |
307 |
350 |
350 |
411 |
183 |
1997 |
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
The Force Information Management Board chaired by the Deputy Chief Constable has oversight of the Force wide programme of work to improve the quality of Force data. This work has identified data quality leads in all key areas of the business including the Crime and Public Protection Command. Liaison between the Force Data Quality Team and the Crime and Public Protection Command lead for data quality will identify and resolve issues through a variety of mechanisms to ensure regular and appropriate supervisory oversight.