"Figure 15: Sex of victims and defendants in domestic abuse-related cases in England and Wales, year ending March 2017","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. Data from CPS are not classified as official statistics. 2. The CPS records some limited data, identifying the number of victims in the Witness Management System. This is a system used by Witness Care Unit (WCU) staff to manage cases. Not all cases are managed by WCUs and a number of CPS areas do not use this system. It follows that there are many cases for which victim information is not recorded. As a result, it is not possible to correlate data on the sex of victims against data on the sex of defendants. " "Unit","%" "","" "","Victims","Defendants" "Women","65.2","8.2" "Men","13.4","91.7" "Not recorded","21.4","0.1"