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Swedish women getting more violent as they step up assaults against their spouses

Thursday, 09 August 2012
Gone are the days in Sweden where women begged to be recognise. Today they are more powerful and not only holding important positions in the jobs places but also getting very strong physically.

This is why the number of women convicted of assault is increasing sharply in Sweden. This means these women are thrown in prison or fine for beating up their spouses, partners or other relatives. They actually carry out kicking and punching of their partners to submission according to the new report.

Some of the victims who are men say it happened so many times and sometimes when there is a newborn child.

In 2001,   602 women were sentenced for assault, last year that number had gone up to 1 103. In ten years the assault sentences against women has increased by 83 percent, according to statistics from the Swedish National Council for crime prevention,  Brå.

Authorities who have been looking at the changes say that the increase could have been driven by changing attitudes in the society. Men and women have become more equal, and the abuse of women are no longer tolerated.

according to Michael Hogberg who is a therapist and has extensive experience in conflict within close relationships say that he has met many men who are beaten by their girlfriends or wives. He also believes that the increase is mainly because more men now dare to report, but said also that the real number is probably high.

Reporting makes the man seen as weak and is highly stigmatizing. It is so culturally conditioned that the man should not be the weak and society still has little understanding of the fact that men have also become victims, though not in equal numbers, according to Michael Hogberg.

However, women don't kill more now as before. The number of women murderers sentenced has fluctuated up and down between 9-19 women for the last ten years. This is explained that women, after all, have not become more violent.

Michael Hogberg points that the problem is that society in general has a tendency to assume that the woman are always the victim. He said he was contacted recently of a man who had been subjected to violence, but that woman counter-appealed that she was the one being abused by  him. Eventually the man is the one who was convicted because it was so unreasonable that he would have been beaten by a woman.
By Scancomark.se Team

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