Scotland's new "stirring up hatred" law

[Angela Channing]

Men overwhelmingly commit more murders than women. It's not even close, over 90% of murderers are men.

 

[Biggie]

I would be curious to see the stats regarding who is doing the murdering. Are women more likely to be killed by men or women? Are men more likely to be killed by women or men?

The O.N.S stats show that the suspected perpetrator is usually male in both data sets.

O.N.S data is public domain, just search ONS UK online and it's easy to find. Keep in mind that sometimes the trends are skewed as some events take a long time to be recorded as a homicide, and only then will it be reflected in the stats. EG: The Hillsborough disaster of 1989 that claimed 96 lived was eventually recorded as 96 unlawful killings in 2017, and recorded in that years figures.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Men overwhelmingly commit more murders than women. It's not even close, over 90% of murderers are men.

The vast majority of spree shooters or serial killers (or just back-alley thugs) are undoubtedly men, although very, very few men are spree shooters, serial killers or back-alley thugs. And, yes, men are also most of the victims.

Women kill their offspring at a much higher rate than men -- even if the fathers are in the household.

In the 19th century, there was a move to literally decriminalize infanticide (which made up most of the murders and were committed by mothers 95% of the time) because juries -- male juries -- almost always refused to convict her. Stories about her mental health and general stressors nearly always found a sympathetic ear... It was considered a waste of tax-payer money to charge and prosecute a woman who'd killed her child because it was almost impossible to send her to prison.

So public violence tends to be predominately male. Private violence is something else entirely.

Lesbian couples have the highest level of domestic violence. Gay men have the lowest (much lower). With straight couples in between.

Mutual domestic violence between straight couples is initiated by the man and the woman about 50% of the time, each partner knowing they're going to get smacked back. In straight households with unilateral domestic violence (where one partner hits the other without getting hit back) women initiate it 70% of the time.

We care nothing about male victims. And only about female victims (who may not even be victims) especially if she's blonde, white and pretty.

 

[CeeCee72]

Understand that this is only my PERSONAL perspective, shaped by 50 plus years of my PERSONAL experiences.

I grew up in the deep south in the USA way out in the middle of nowhere. Domestic violence was prominent in the culture in which I was raised. Thankfully, I was never exposed to it in my own home, but it was an everyday fact of life for many of my friends.

What I saw with my own eyes is that women were much more frequently the perpetrators. I saw men get hit with frying pans, brooms, shoes, and other flying objects. I saw men slapped and punched and kicked in the privates. It's true that when men were the perpetrators, the injuries were almost always worse, but the men got hurt sometimes too. These men and their family members rarely called the police. It was "shameful" not to be "man enough" to "handle your own woman." The men basically just put up with it and the police didn't care at all. But if it was a woman injured, I promise you the man was going to jail right then and there.

Like I said, where I grew up, and in a lot of other places, this is unfortunately baked into the local culture.