But over the years, domestic violence has been discussed openly amongst the media, doctors, and law enforcement agencies and in the courts. Laws have been put in place to protect victims and prosecute offenders but this phenomenon still continues. Reportedly, 95% of victims of domestic violence are women and 12% are men. What is domestic violence? Domestic violence refers to a pattern of violent and coercive behavior exercised by one adult over another in an intimate relationship.
What are the patterns and reasons for domestic violence in society? Firstly the government defines domestic violence as “any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse. (physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sex”. However in society women have been perceived as the property of men. Until the end of the 18th century it was legal to beat wives and this was called lawful correction.
The case study discovered that there are multiple reasons to be more likely to become a victim of domestic violence. Some of those reasons are unemployment, criminal records of the abuser in the past, weapons in the household and violent intimate relationships between the victim and the abuser. The United Nations as well as several governments from influential countries
Outline and assess feminist explanations of crime and deviance. Feminist views toward crime and deviance usually challenge the theories, concepts, methods and assumptions of most of the people already involved in the study of crime. They believe that in most condition men dominate the subject of crime and validate more on the male subject. Feminist essentially outline that most crime is caused by men as they appear to offend six or seven times more than a women and through figures such as self-report studies men are still the majority. Crime and deviance is an issue in society however due to women being socially controlled within the patriarchal society it means they are less like to commit crime and therefore have a lower rate.
The victim will be affected by DV and it can happen to anyone regardless of gender, social background, religion, sexuality or ethnicity. The children will be also affected by witnessing DV Section 120 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 In terms of gender everyone can be a victim of DV, however, most domestic violence is committed by a man against a woman. Domestic violence is dangerous. Too often, conflicts escalate into injury or death. 3.
There are some situations where women are the perpetrators of the abuse and men are the victims, but usually clinicians only see women seeking treatment for abuse. The US Department of Justice estimates that women are up to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner. Nurses play a very important role in identifying and treating the victims of intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence is summarily defined as an ongoing pattern of domination and control perpetrated against an intimate partner through a culmination of physical violence, sexual assault, and/or psychological abuse. The abuser’s ultimate goal is to establish control over their victims.
Examine the patterns of, & reasons for, domestic violence in the society. (24marks) Domestic violence could be defined as, Physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence that takes place within an intimate or family type relationship and forms a pattern coercive and controlling behavior. It may involve partners, ex partners, household members or relatives. Domestic violence has many forms including, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, economic deprivation. Awareness, perception and documentation of domestic violence differs from country to country and from era to era.
However it is not just women that are affected by domestic abuse men are as well, 5% of men experience domestic abuse in a year (Home Office, 2011). In the British Crime Survey 2010/2011 it was reported that 30% of women experienced domestic abuse (BBC NEWS uk, 2012). There are many views surrounding domestic violence that suggest it is not a real policing matter, and therefore many people feel that they cannot report the abuse, such issues and police failings in domestic abuse cases, have created a long history of negative association surrounding the police and domestic abuse (walklate, 2007). Research has also shown that victims feel that the service the police provide is unsatisfactory (Cromack, 1995). Consequently, guidelines and codes of practice are frequently being changed and updated to ensure that shortfalls do not occur.
However it has recently came to question of whether this perception of dangerousness is supported. Is it true that once a sex offender always a sex offender? In this paper I will discuss the evidence about the commonness and nature of sexual offending, characteristics of sex offenders, recidivism rates among different kinds of sex offenders and the support of treatment programs. In most studies the sexual offenders term can be broken down into 3 different classifications. The first group is sexual offenders that commit crimes of sexual violence against adults.
Susalyn Bailey English 1301 21 November 2013 Should we do more to deal with the problem of domestic violence , Or is the problem over exaggerated? Domestic violence is recognized as a global public health problem, and is the single greatest cause of injury to women in the United States. Many of us may have witnessed or no someone who have been a victim of domestic violence. Abusers come from all different races, ethnicities, and genders. Although, there is no known cause why some people abuse others, there are theories to explain the influence behind their behavior.