Legal and physical security

The challenge

  • Reduce the incidence of domestic and sexual violence and reduce homophobic, transphobic, disability-related and religiously motivated bullying and hate crime.

The evidence

  • 1 in 4 women experience domestic abuse in a lifetime
  • Women are twice as likely as men to be victims of sexual violence, or of non-sexual violence by their partner or family
  • Of 4,578 prosecutions of hate crime in Wales
    • 568 were for racially and religiously motivated crimes
    • 68 for homophobic and transphobic crimes
    • 21 for hate crimes against disabled people

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