the highest answer for all responses except for ‘honour’ crimes which rural women
thought happened ‘sometimes’.
Respondents were then asked how often they believed these forms of violence against
women happened in ‘their community’.
Figure W1: Violence and abuse that happens frequently in ‘your community’.
As figure W1 shows, urban women are more likely than rural women to believe that
violence and abuse occurs in their communities. This is true of all types of violence and
abuse. The biggest divergence of views is in relation to prostitution with 17.7% of rural
women compared to 46.1% of urban women believing that prostitution happened
frequently in their communities.
Services
There were very few differences in the breakdown of responses from the Welsh cohort
compared to the wider survey respondents in terms of services. Both the rural and urban
groups from Wales identified a lack of perpetrator programmes, Rape Crisis services and
women’s refuge/safe houses in their local area. Urban women from Wales also
identified a lack generally of other women’s organisations.
As with the wider cohort, both the rural and urban women from Wales identified the
police, women’s refuge/safe house and Rape Crisis as the top three organisations in their
local area currently dealing with violence against women issues. When asked which
services generally respondents thought should play a role in violence against women the
top three for both rural and urban women from Wales werethe police,women’s refuges
and social services.
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