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2/17)2D17 Understardrg Domestic Abusers: Gender and Intimate Partner Violence - Gerideer and domestic abuse - NYS OPDV it's because they see it as a private or personal matter, not that they feel ashamed and embarrassed. Some male victims want to protect the partner who assaulted them — just like female victims do.90 Researchers and service providers have described this state of affairs in various ways: Men readily tell researchers that they are being hit, complain in court about mistreatment during divorce and custody cases, and insist in counseling that they are the ones who are being abused 91 A "committed public effort to reach out to [heterosexual] male victims has not resulted in domestic violence programs suddenly discovering they need to rethink their emphasis on serving women." -9-2 We don't see heterosexual men whose self-esteem is destroyed by abuse, who give up school and career progress, who are forced into unwanted sex, or who flee for their lives. People intervene in abuse more than they used to, and if those men were out there, someone would have noticed 22 Male domestic violence victims who come to law enforcement attention are more likely to be future suspects for domestic violence than female victims. One study found that: • 41% of male victims who were later involved in new incidents of IPV were identified by police as suspects in the new incident, compared with only 26.3% of women. • Only 26% of male suspects were later identified as victims, vs. 44% of female suspects 94 Similarly, male victims of IP homicides are much more likely than female victims to have previously abused their eventual killers -U Gender and Responsive Violence Responsive violence is the largest single category of violence by women. Over half of women's violence overall is in response to male violence.2 Only a small percentage of IPV by men is in response to abuse by a partner.97 Gender and Fights In heterosexual relationships, men initiate situational violence somewhat more often than women, but the rates are fairly similar. "[L]arge-scale survey research... reports gender symmetry in the initiation and participation of men and women in partner violence. This violence is not based on a relationship dynamic of coercion and control, is less severe, and mostly arises from conflicts and arguments between the partners... "98 These surveys typically conceptualize IPV as behavior aimed at winning a fight. They typically use a measure of IPV called the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS),99 which specifically asks about IPV in the context of arguments 100 These family conflict studies find much higher rates of violence by both men and women than show up in crime victimization studies, but lower levels of severity.10-1 Because they ask about arguments, these studies pick up less severe incidents that are not experienced as a crime and would not be reported to a crime victimization researcher. This relatively low-level situational violence usually does not escalate, causes few injuries, and is committed only somewhat more by hVJMww.opdv nygov/professionals/abusers/genderarxtipv h1ml 24 47