ABSTRACT
Feminist concerns over domestic violence suggests that there are such other spaces and that the failure of both the criminal law and those charged with enforcing it to take male violence seriously may have an important impact upon women. As we have already seen, male violence against women is largely perpetrated against women who are known to the assailants and, in particular, against female partners, usually in the privacy of the home.62 It is this latter scenario which is usually encapsulated by ‘domestic violence’.
