Even though domestic violence is considered a criminal and civil crime under law, most people are not protected. According to Sarah Anderson, an intern at SISGI Group, (2012), “In many states the laws are still not encompassing the totality of the effects of violence on women. Some states still don’t recognize that domestic violence involving pregnant women should be treated as a violent felony because it also affects the unborn child. Even when domestic violence involves a pregnant woman, the abuser is often still awarded custody rights after the child is born because the law does not recognize the abuse against the pregnant woman as abuse against the unborn child” (Not Good Enough). Twenty-one states in this country have mandatory arrest laws (Barton & Diedrich, 2012), but there is no one to enforce them, and if laws are ignored, there are no penalties.
The study examined all reported incidents of “targeted violence” since 1900 and found that 60 percent of the 272 cases of college violence have occurred in the last 20 years. About 30 percent of the total number of reported cases occurred between 2000 and 2008, the study said. In the recent years, many high profile shootings such as Columbine High School shooting in 1999, leaving 14 students (including shooters) and one teacher killed and 27 others wounded; 9 shot dead, 15 injured at Birney Elementary School in 2010 and the most infamous Virginia Tech massacre where 32 were killed wounded 25 others in 2007 have made the topic of concealed carrying one of the most talked of topics in America and an important political agenda. Below is a list of some of the high causality shootings in the last
In 2005, more than 500 died across the entire U.S.-Mexico border. The number of yearly border crossing deaths has doubled since 1995. The statistics cited by scholars and the media are merely the number of known deaths, and do not include those that have never been found, grossly underestimating the actual number of migrants that have died attempting unauthorized border crossings. Mexico's Secretarial of Foreign Affairs) has compiled data that includes deaths on the Mexican side of the border area during the period from 1994 to 2000. Their data show 87 deaths in 1996, 149 in 1997, 329 in 1998, 358 in 1999, and 499 in 2000.
Since the mid-1950s, suicide rates around the world have risen by 60%. Rates among young people have risen even faster, to the point where they are now the age group at highest risk in 35% of the world’s countries. The specific demographics, however, vary from country to country. China’s pattern, for example, is very different from that of most other countries. China has a suicide mortality rate of 23:100,000, with a total of 287,000 deaths by suicide each year.
My mother and a boyfriend of hers had a few fights, and also 2 of my sisters and their boyfriends had their little spats. I even went through it myself with my ex-wife once when we separated and things escalated, but in my case it was actually domestic violence towards me and not the other way around. I know firsthand about the male perspective of domestic violence because I am probably in that statistic of cases not reported. I was surprised to find that there are so many cases where the victim had no one to protect or standup for them before the 1970s. I was really surprised to find out that with so many advocate groups and shelters for victims, there are not more people who are victims of domestic violence do not try to get out of the relationships.
A startling 293 murders were reported in 2010 in Los Angeles and 32 murders for Long Beach and yet it is even more shocking to know there are far more forcible rapes that occur in both of these areas. I would think that population size, diversity and other environmental factors have something to do with the differences in these numbers. The murder rate seems to have decreased while forcible rape increased in both cities, with an additional 630 incidents in Los Angeles and an additional 102 incidents in Long Beach. On the other hand, for the past several years, crime rates have dropped continually. The Los Angeles Police Department reported in 2008 that
We know that in the past divorce was very hard to get as it was only legal for the men to file a divorce and was socially unacceptable. However over the years the government has been passing laws in order to make divorce easier and cheaper. In 1969, the Divorce Reform Act was introduced which made it much easier to get a divorce. Also the law that was passed in 1984; which allowed couples to only stay in a marriage for one year before filing a divorce, helped make divorce easier. Statistics have shown that due to these legal changes more women are filing divorces as 7/10 women have filed a divorce compared to men.
Native American Social Injustices A study by the Department of Justice in 1999 found that violent crime occurs more than twice as frequent per capita on Indian reservations as elsewhere, with sexual abuse against women occurring 3 times as frequently, and that violent crime in Indian country is increasing while decreasing nationally. Indian women are 2 and half times more likely to be assaulted and more than twice as likely to be stalked as any other women in this country. In the previous 7 years, the report said, homicide on Indian reservations rose by 87 percent, while declining 22 percent nationally, and child abuse and neglect rose 18 percent, while declining 8 percent nationally. Nearly a 3rd of all Indians between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of violence. These numbers can only show the significance of violence on Indian reservations.
Intimate partner violence is a serious problem particularly in the United States because on average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, which sums up to more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year. In addition to this startling number of cases, in 2007, 2,340 deaths and 14% of all homicides were attributed to intimate partner violence. Of these casualties, 70% were female and 30% were male. Developmental theories seek to isolate, explain, and comprehend the development factors that explain the onset and continuation of a criminal career. Through the entwining of subjective, communal, intellectual, and situational factors, developmental theorist identify the characteristics that cause criminals to persist in their criminal behaviors.
Chantal Taylor Soc 210 Mrs. Sobers 26 August 2012 Suicide occurs more often than homicide. Each year over 34,000 people commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death between people from 15-24 and the second leading cause of death between the ages 25-34. (Web MD) The rates of suicides are higher in women between the ages of 10 -19 and between the ages of 15-19 in males. (Web MD).