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Domestic violence coordinator Stein Erik Olsen says that families with different ethnic backgrounds dominate the domestic violence statistics.

Newspaper would write an article about julefri, Christmas dinners, Christmas beer, Christmas aquavit and Christmas brawl in Norwegian homes.

The theory was that there is more domestic violence during the Christmas season when people have more free and more alcohol.

Not so in Oslo. Domestic violence coordinator Stein Erik Olsen in Oslo says the Christmas violence is a myth in the same way that there are more burglaries during holidays.

- 70 percent of these cases involve families with different ethnic backgrounds. Cultures, we are talking about using little alcohol and do not celebrate Christmas, says family violence coordinator in Oslo, Stein Erik Olsen to Nettavisen. And adds.

- What we have seen here on Stovner is that the number of cases has gone down during Ramadan, says Olsen.

Why the number of domestic violence cases go down during the Muslim fasting will not speculate Olsen in.

Set the agenda
Soon it will be ten years since the National Police Directorate launched a nationwide focus on family violence. All the country's police received a domestic violence coordinator. It previously had remained with the emergency of domestic violence should now be the start of a police investigation of possible conviction for domestic violence as a result.

In 2005, a penal clause against domestic violence. Penal Code 219 should take over the general provisions relating to violence and intimidation. It also increased the penalty for violence that were committed within the four walls.

Do not aim to decrease
Number of cases that end up in the Oslo District Court shows that the focus is producing results.

Number of domestic violence cases total has increased from 633 cases in 2008 to 932 cases per 1 December 2011.

Figures from the National Police Directorate shows an increase in the number of reviews for the violation of Penal Code 219 on 168 percent from 2007 to 2011.

- Our goal is not to get into these matters. Probably there are many more who need help. Our goal is to identify and combat domestic violence. This means lower numbers that the police are less active, says smaller number means a smaller active police, said Oslo's domestic violence coordinator Stein Erik Olsen. Police chief assistant is chief investigator on the Stovner police station, saying that the capital they feel now that more and more victims even contact the police.

Olsen says that one of the challenges of other cultures is that they have their own laws and another of women than is accepted in the Norwegian society.

- In the worst of our stuff so it's pretty extreme how cultures manage the family, and how there are other laws and regulations than the Norwegian, as applicable. But we have more knowledge about these matters, and it is no longer all women from these cultures that accept it. For many of them are incredibly tough to report. To speak with us, like they have to break with people who are their only evidence in a foreign country, says Olsen.

More confidence in the police
In recent years, more and more people contacted the police to ask for help. Olsen takes this as a signal that people have more confidence in the police, and the dark figures are becoming smaller.

When women see that the police follow up cases of domestic violence, and that society does not accept such violence, it will be more to report, says Olsen.

Kari Naess Rewinding at the crisis center in Fredrikstad supports Olsen that the police have more confidence in this type of case in recent years.

- Today we have a good working relationship with the police. We feel that they are more helpful and that they are currently listening to these people, says Omvik.

But even if society in general is opposed to violence in the home, it is still difficult for victims to understand what happens to them, and break out of violent relationships.

One in 10 Norwegian women over the age of 15 has been raped, according to the country's largest shelter organization, the Secretariat of the Shelter Movement. But at least 80 percent of these cases are never brought to official attention and only 10 percent of those that are end in a conviction, the Justice Ministry says.

Nowhere is this taboo more stubborn than in the family home, long considered off-limits for law enforcement and the state.

"The statistics tell us that the safest place for women is outside, on the street — most rapes happen at home," said Tove Smaadahl, general manager of the Shelter Movement. In a 2005 survey by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 9 percent of female respondents in a relationship reported experiencing sexual assault.

"No, we don't have equality between men and women," Ms. Smaadahl said, "not until we have addressed the issue of relationship rape."

These findings challenge widely held notions that partner rape is the most difficult to prosecute. Instead, as chronicled in the 2009 report, prosecution and conviction rates look deeply biased: Forty percent of rapes in which the perpetrator did not know the victim but was successfully identified were prosecuted, with conviction rates of more than 70 percent. By contrast, only 14 percent of suspects in partner rape were convicted. Suspects of immigrant origin were particularly likely to be punished.

Norwegian women and middle-class women of any background tend to be more embarrassed about being raped and beaten than the growing number of lower-income immigrant women in the shelter because they are expected to be that much more emancipated, psychologists and rape counselors say.

There is a problem with domestic violence in Norway - the majority (80%) of incidents aren't reported

the vast, vast majority being Norwegian perpetrators.

As the NYT article indicates - the immigrant communities are more likely to report the crime

(I highlighted this for you)

Therefore it is only a flight of fancy to imagine that 70% of domestic violence in Norway (or even Oslo) are carried out by immigrants.

But we have more knowledge about these matters, and it is no longer all women from these cultures that accept it. For many of them are incredibly tough to report. To speak with us, like they have to break with people who are their only evidence in a foreign country, says Olsen.

most rapes happen at home

Again, long waffling post to try and disguise yet another hyped up xenophobic post.

80% of rapes not reported

Sexual violence against women in Scandinavia shares characteristics seen in more unequal societies: It is all too common and rarely reported, and those who commit it are even more rarely convicted. Ancient prejudices about male prerogative and modern assumptions about female emancipation conspire to create a thick wall of silence, shame and legal ambiguity.

One in 10 Norwegian women over the age of 15 has been raped, according to the country's largest shelter organization, the Secretariat of the Shelter Movement. But at least 80 percent of these cases are never brought to official attention and only 10 percent of those that are end in a conviction, the Justice Ministry says.

Nowhere is this taboo more stubborn than in the family home, long considered off-limits for law enforcement and the state.

"The statistics tell us that the safest place for women is outside, on the street — most rapes happen at home," said Tove Smaadahl, general manager of the Shelter Movement. In a 2005 survey by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 9 percent of female respondents in a relationship reported experiencing sexual assault.

You keep imagining things that aren't real.

If you want to believe the spin, go ahead.

I used the 80% figure given.

from your failed spin.

If you think I'm a liar and am wrong on the numbers

I've given you both the source and my reasoning.

shafique wrote:The NYT article from October is very much on topic - and exposes your selective spin.

There is a problem with domestic violence in Norway - the majority (80%) of incidents aren't reported

Your spin has failed.

shafique wrote:If you think I'm a liar and am wrong on the numbers - give me the correct number according to you and what your source is. I've given you both the source and my reasoning.

Imagining that your spin hasn't failed isn't going to help you eh - you can repeat your selective spin all you like, but the facts remain.

If you think I'm a liar and am wrong on the numbers - give me the correct number according to you and what your source is. I've given you both the source and my reasoning.