Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Domestic Violence Taskgroup

To make the right choices, you need to know the facts!

In 1998, the Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust found that 1 in 5 young men and 1 in 10 young women thought that abuse or violence against women was acceptable.

Crime statistics and research both show that domestic violence is gender specific - usually the perpetrator of a pattern of repeated assaults is a man.

Women experience the most serious physical and repeated assaults.

Women are most likely to be sexually attacked by men who are known to them.

45% of rapes reported in one survey were perpetrated by current partners