{"id":4413,"date":"2021-10-21T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T11:36:19","slug":"scottish-da-cases-top-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/scottish-da-cases-top-1m\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish DA cases \u2018top 1m\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of domestic abuse incidents in Scotland could be more than one million annually, according to researcher Allan Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal charges related to domestic abuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/2021\/09\/da-charges-in-scotland-at-five-year-high\/\">hit a five-year high at 33,425<\/a> in 2020\/21. But campaigners say the true figure is greater.<\/p>\n<p>SafeLives believes that before seeking help women endure an average of 50 incidents and typically wait up to three years before seeking help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most recent Scottish crime figures showed 16.5% of adults had experienced [domestic abuse], and that equates to around 700,000,\u201d Moore, a criminology and criminal justice lecturer at West of Scotland University, was quoted as saying by the <em>Sunday Post<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you consider most will have suffered multiple incidents, it\u2019s easy to see the figure rise to over a million instances a year. There is no black and white proof of that figure. But all the \u00adcircumstantial threads of evidence point to it being the truth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of domestic abuse incidents in Scotland could be more than one million annually, according to researcher Allan Moore. Criminal charges related to domestic abuse hit a five-year high at 33,425 in 2020\/21. But campaigners say the true figure is greater. SafeLives believes that before seeking help women endure an average of 50 incidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}