Domestic violence refers to a pattern of violent and coercive behavior exercised by one adult over another in an intimate relationship. It may consist of repeated, severe beatings or more subtle forms of abuse, including threats and control. (Unknown, 2005). According to C.J. Newton’s article “Domestic Violence: An Overview: The rates of domestic violence vary along several lines, including race, gender, economic and educational status and geographical location.
A truth about intimate partner sexual assault is that “In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published data collected in 2005 that finds that women experience two million injuries from intimate partner violence each year.” (CDC 2008) A myth about intimate partner sexual assault is that if a intimate partner rapes their domestic partner it is because the individual is not giving sex up enough or depriving the aggressor. This is false, intimate partners need to give consent each time and both agree on having sex or such acts. A truth is that “On average more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States. In 2005, 1,181 women were
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.
Always investigate allegations of sexual abuse by a vulnerable adult. Examples of Sexual Abuse * Unwanted physical and sexual contact, e.g. caresses; * Intercourse with someone who lacks the capacity to consent; * Rape; * Indecent exposure; * Sexual harassment (verbal or physical); * Displaying pornographic literature videos or internet sites; * Gross indecency. Emotional/psychological abuse: Emotional, psychological abuse is defined as; Inflicting mental pain, anguish, or distress on an elder person through verbal or nonverbal acts. Psychological abuse accounts for 36% of all cases of abuse.
Domestic Violence Shelters educate in counseling the victims that domestic violence is about power and control. The abuser wants to dominate the victim/survivor and wants all the power in the relationship-and uses violence in order to establish and maintain authority and power. Perpetrators of domestic violence are usually not sick or deranged, but have learned abusive, manipulative techniques and behaviors that allow them to dominate and control others and obtain the responses they desire. Teaching the victim to view the abusers actions such as: An abuser will often restrict a victim's outlets, forbidding the victim to maintain outside employment, friends, and family ties. This has an isolating effect, leaving victims with no support system, and creating dependency.
IPV can range from one hit to severe battering or even death (IPV Definitions). There are four main types of intimate partner violence. These types include physical violence, sexual violence, threats of physical or sexual violence, and psychological/emotional violence. Physical violence is the intentional use of physical force to cause bodily harm to another. Abusers most always use physical violence to gain control over their partner.
Overall young women aged 20-24 report the highest levels of violence. Up to 120 women are killed by their partners each year an example of this is that Paul Dalton killed his wife, cut her body up with an electric saw and stored pieces in the freezer. In contrast only around ten men were killed by there female partners between December 2003 and December 2004. In violence against wives (1980) Dobash and Dobash reported that the majority of women in their study were attacked twice a week in their own homes. The factors that seem most likely to cause a violent incident are sexual jealousy, money and their partner’s expectations of the women’s housework or homemaking skills.
They can then define what actions should be taken next. All information gathered in this paper was compiled from the reference book National Survey of State Laws 4th ED. The emotions associated with stalking are most commonly fear based emotions. “The majority of women (52%) talked about the fear of increased abuse if they sought mental health treatment.” (Logan) How absolutely terrifying that someone genuinely believes they cannot get help because it will only make things worse for them. “The behavior of a stalker must be threatening enough to instill fear or harm toward the victim or someone close to the victim.” (Logan) What gives anyone the right to make another person fearful for their safety or anyone else because their stalker is a
Domestic Violence A Vulnerable Population. Introduction What is vulnerability? Webster defines vulnerable as, “that can be wounded or physically injured, open to criticism or attack, easily hurt as by adverse criticism; sensitive, open to attack by armed forces” (Macmillian General Reference, 1997, p. 1064). Historically women have been dominated by men; this paper will discuss the impact of domestic violence against women along with identifying the barriers that stop them from receiving essential medical and psychological support. Barriers Women who are victims of domestic violence suffer from physical and emotional abuse that may go undetected by healthcare professionals.
A victim of rape (primary victimisation), for example, may be subjected to victim blaming and ostracism as the result of the attack; those who become disabled (primary victimisation) may be subjected to non-accommodation, medicalization, and segregation; and those who develop mental disorder (primary victimisation) may be subject to institutionalisation, that in each case may be far more victimising to these individuals and limiting of their life opportunity than the primary victimising stigmatic condition itself, and are thus called secondary victimisation. The disregards of victims’ needs following a crime against them can sometimes be so traumatic that it is called the “second rape” (in the case of rape) or “second assault”. Victims will feel let down and isolated by the criminal justice body, the medical body and any other institution that is meant to help them, but instead causes the victim in certain cases to start believing that it was in fact their fault or that they had a hand in causing the crime. During the court process, secondary victimisation takes place at various levels. Examples of this are where the victim is not afforded private waiting or report-taking facilities.