... be pertinent to first talk about Grady's study and the findings that resulted. As it obvious from the title the study was about the prevalence of female-to-male domestic violence in households in this country. The truth of the matter was that, although female victims were more likely to get seriously hurt as a result of violence, the figures regarding male and female instances of violence were not at all dissimilar. However, with this in mind, the reported and recorded cases of female-to-male violence in police statistics were disproportionately small. Grady has understandably put this down to the feminist stereotype that is prevalent in our society that, as the male has always been seen to be the dominant partner it is the job of the criminal system to protect the physically subordinate females from the grasps of the misogynist man. Grady argues that the effects of this stereotype have affected both ...

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