We analysed almost 500,000 police reports of domestic violence. Mental health was an issue
- Written by George Karystianis, Research fellow, UNSW

Rare access to almost half a million police reports of domestic violence has revealed a hidden picture of mental health issues in perpetrators and victims.
This is academics’ first attempt in the world to use computers to mine the text of so many police reports. These would otherwise have taken humans years to read and...