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Home abusers 'likely to commit other crimes'

PUBLISHED March 22, 2004
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Domestic abusers are much more likely to commit other crimes but police are failing to make crucial connections, according to Metroplitan police research.

A study of 400 offences and perpetrators, mostly men, discovered that at least 70% of those who had physically assaulted partners had a criminal history. Around one in 12 had sexual convictions, or there was intelligence that they had been been involved in other rapes or sexual assaults.

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