Up and down the country specialist domestic violence courts have been set up to deal with the huge volume of domestic abuse cases that come through the door. From physical assault to harassment and stalking, the sheer number of cases brought before judges and magistrates for attacks deemed to be of a domestic nature is astonishing.
Whether this be through partner relationships, parental, siblings, there appears to be a never-ending list of such crimes that need to be dealt with. The number of arrests involving abuse-related offences in the year ending March 2022 totals 18,909 according to data by the Office for National Statistics.
We spent a month in a dedicated domestic violence court in Swansea Magistrates' Court to understand the types of cases that are meeting the prosecution threshold and document the prevalence of these types of crimes.
