To provide a critical literature review on the global and UK pertinent aspects of domestic abuse. Explore the myth most perpetrators of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse is strangers to the victim or survivor and to evaluate the nature of effective interventions. The paper is to analyse global and UK/Scottish evidence, which synthesises crimes are often perpetrated by intimate partners and family members, as forms of violence against women. The issues of psychological and psycho-social problems are to be examined along with the effects on victims and their immediate families and support networks.