Hitting, biting, boxing, kicking

Die Weltwoche, January 20, 2010. By Franziska K. Müller. Up to fifty percent of all domestic attacks are perpetrated by women. Their destructive rage goes unpunished, as men prefer to conceal their victimhood. And...

Brutal Brünhildes

Michèle Binswanger in the Tages-Anzeiger on Tuesday, September 15, 2009: In conflict situations, men are sometimes unjustly stigmatized as perpetrators! In the past four weeks, five women have been convicted of murder in Switzerland. In...

"Female violence is downplayed"

Tages-Anzeiger e-edition of February 18, 2009 / Lorenz Schmid: Men as victims of domestic violence are hardly acknowledged. Some even raise accusations on Tagesanzeiger.ch against the authorities, claiming they were not taken seriously as victims...

Women who commit violence must attend a course

Basel-Landschaft launches pilot project against domestic violence specifically for women; Basler Zeitung; November 24, 2008, Michael Rockenbach. According to statistics, women are becoming increasingly violent. Basel-Landschaft is the first canton to react to this trend with a new...

When a woman strikes

© NZZ am Sonntag; November 2, 2008. Crime is essentially a male issue: Compared to the other sex, female offenders are significantly outnumbered. But this ratio is changing: More and more women are resorting to violence....