Domestic Violence And Its Effects On Society

Statistics state, “One out of every four women will go through domestic violence situations in life. (safehorizon.com) Domestic violence is aggressive behavior towards someone else at home or in a relationship. This can happen at home between spouses/partners or parents and children. Domestic violence should be given more acknowledgment in the media and in classrooms so that people are aware of what is happening. If we do not continue to advocate for victims and educate society, victims will continue to suffer physically,mentally, and emotionally, victims of this behavior go back to their abuser, leading victims to later become abusers themselves.

As an avid sports fan I have been highly troubled by the recent headlines to plague the NFL in recent months. It seems as if every week a new player is being accused of domestic violence. In the past these accusations have seemingly gone unnoticed as the player gets punished behind the scenes and continues playing the game we love to watch. However, now as the league is taking the horrific issue of domestic violence far more seriously we are starting to see just how prevalent it is in the NFL. While this is a significant step in creating more awareness for the issues of domestic violence, Rex W. Huppke wants people to realize how prevalent domestic violence is not just in the NFL, but everywhere,

The spectator of this sport has an obligation to the players of the sport, to make sure that the organization is protecting and looking out for them. Yet not only should the viewer be held accountable for the lack of communication in consequences between the player and the pro scene, but the organization of the NFL needs to make sure that their players have a full understanding of what is going on and how they need to protect the players. The current situation that is understood, contents contain implied knowledge that all parties of this table are in uniform knowledge and agreement to what comes of playing football. Finally, this should also happen at the youth level when kids are just getting into the sport, as it would better inform the parents and the kid if they understood the full

Professional sports have been in the news for domestic violence for a really long time. Some that may come to your mind could be Ray Rice, Warren Moon, Greg Hardy, and Jose Reyes. Yes, three of these four players are in the National Football League (NFL), but that does not mean that only football players are the ones who have been doing this. The most recent one is Jose Reyes who plays in Major League Baseball (MLB). That is really ones opinion, but some don’t have anything but I slap on the wrist. Commissioners around these leagues usually suspend the player for a couple games until all of the details and videos come out. Ray Rice was suspended two games until they saw evidence then he was suspended for the whole year. Some wanted him banned

Regarding the Dewan Smith-Williams case they’re goal to me is to protect the brand and not to protect the husband from himself and his high risk behavior to his wife and family because they didn’t want her to go to the police and keep it silent. I think Mrs. Williams made the right call to come forth and let it be known that spouses and/or partners are being treated unfair and something needs to be done. In my opinion, maybe if fans, anti-violence groups and women’s rights organizations get together and organize a plan that could force the owners to enact stronger and lasting reforms to improve the NFL actions and response to domestic abuse. They should make some amendments to the personal conduct policy. This topic relates to the discussion on human behavior because we want to know what causes the domestic abuse from the spouse especially if the abuser is in the NFL, a super star, and fame is growing and so forth. Find out what area of treatment and theory practice could be used to help the

The court system may have allowed many of these players to walk away from very serious crimes with inadequate punishment while the NFL’s response did little to discourage criminal behavior. Because of this, the first part of the solution lies with the judicial system to begin holding players accountable to the same standards as the average American citizen. Michael Vick served just a year and a half behind bars in a state that routinely sentences individuals to five-year terms for the same crime (Humane Society). In the case of O.J. Simpson, a jury of his peers allowed him to walk out of a courtroom a free man despite compelling

When does a contact sport become a crime? That is the question that every National Football League (NFL) fan has asked themselves in light of the former Saints defensive coordinator (DC) Gregg Williams’ “bounty program.” No one person has wrestled with this question more than the NFL commissioner Rodger Goodell. Goodell was faced with an ethical decision that will shape his tenure as the NFL’s commissioner; his decision will become precedence for many commissioners after him. Using the RESOLVEDD strategy of decision-making developed by Raymond Pfeiffer and Ralph Forsberg (2005), this paper will examine the scandal, scrutinize the decisions made, and determine if the NLF commissioner took the correct action for the league.

Combine selective enforcement of the league’s policy and potential bias on the part of law enforcement and juries with the fame and glory of being a professional athlete, and we create a class of individuals who feel above reproach. It is one thing for a team to give someone a second chance. It is another to repeatedly ignore, and thus implicitly condone, violent off-field conduct.

This memo serves the purpose of discussing the next step in my research project, after sifting through many papers already written on the subject. Through my research, I realized where the current professionals were targeting their questions on the subject: domestic violence. Today, many people look at the National Football League as if it is on a pedestal; people worship the players from their home team. However, this can cause problems with those emulating their characteristics. This topic has been covered in the pieces of writing I evaluated, but nothing further ever came up. If we are worried about the influence the players have over the fans, I would like to see how much of an effect they actually have.

The NFL has developed a corporate social responsibility in order to keep their brand image in high public perception. For instance, in 2014 former Baltimore Ravens running-back Ray Rice punched his wife and a video was leaked which the attempted to cover up. The league received heavy criticism on the way they handled the scandal, they used their corporate social responsibility by promoting domestic violence prevention and airing several commercials in order to repair their reputation. The owners, players, fans, and sponsors are all stakeholders of the NFL. When domestic violence became a viral issue in the league in 2014, many women’s advocacy challenged the NFL to take a stance on violence against women and punish players or staff members

“50 percent of all arrests in the NFL since 2014 have been due to domestic violence” (Crime in Sports). Athletes everyday are looked up to as role models and heroes, but are they? While some people in America believe professional athletes get the same punishments as normal people. Americans should be aware that athletes usually get off easily when charged to domestic violence and other crimes.

Domestic violence has become a hot topic lately in articles, newspapers and even discussions on popular News channels. The controversial topic’s importance was ultimately ignited by the video released by TMZ of Ray Rice, the Ravens star running back, striking his then fiancé, Janay Palmer, knocking her unconscious in a casino elevator. Rice proceeds to drag Palmer’s body carelessly out of the elevator and leaves her lying on the floor, still unconscious. The releases of the videos showing what happened inside and outside of the elevator were at the heart of the controversy and outrage of the public. This situation has opened up the conversation for other similar situations and how they are handled by the NFL and viewed by the public. It raised the question if one’s celebrity status minimizes the consequences of offenses as horrible as domestic violence? This domestic violence scandal involving Ray Rice and Janay Palmer has created a nation-wide discussion concerning the consequences for domestic violence in the NFL and the public’s overall attitude towards the handling of the Rice scandal in particular.

Now, no one is saying that sports players should obtain any form of immunity legally for their respective action, but rather when the gavel is dropped, it shouldn’t be by the sports organization(s) but the legal body of a government. Moreover, domestic violence and crimes is a widespread problem in the football athletic community due to the qualities of the job, according to The Washington Post, “with the attendant stresses and problems of that population, compounded by high pain levels and little job security, alternating with elements of wealth and entitlement.” This adds to the fact that human minds have psychological cap and at one point will overfill and implode, causing short burst of anger in uncontrolled events. Adding another layer of punishment may lower the amount of violence and crimes committed by the athletic community as they will have in total more reprimanding. However to do this you would have to generalize all the football players as one yet there is a huge diversity in the arresting rates per team, according to the The Washington Post, “The Minnesota Vikings, for instance, have had four times as many arrests as the St. Louis Rams since

To date, although domestic violence has been researched, the law remains a constraint to victims’ growth and stability. The laws and programs provided in today’s society are limited and affect the victims exit from domestic violence relationships. Further research could propel an initiation of better-developed laws and programs and cause a great impact in how victims respond to domestic violence. Few studies have researched how successful domestic violence victims have been with the legal process of being separated from their abuse. Because society has become more aware of domestic violence, it has become a more public matter rather than private. In the past, domestic violence was generalized as not being considered a crime; society’s changing attitude towards domestic violence was a result of studies linking criminal activity with domestic violence (Currul-Dykeman 2008). Only recently on 1970, did domestic violence become an issue society was aware of (Sumter 2006). Most domestically abuse victims are women, in one study about two million women experience domestic violence in one year (Roberts, Wolfer, Mele 2008). However for the purposes of this study, domestic violence victims will encompass men and women as “one in four women and one in seven men” have experienced domestic violence (Baughman 2014). Overall studies on domestic violence tend to only focus on what is occurring in the relationship and overlook the legal system’s role in empowering or hindering the victims’

But there is no truth in the widely held belief that sport and crime go hand in hand. Little research and few studies have actually been done on the prevalence of crime among athletes or the levels of crime in sport compared to the rest of society, but the public obviously doesn’t need studies to form an opinion (Coakley, 157). When you open a daily newspaper and have to wade threw the mucky headlines of rape and battery just to get to a box score, it’s no wonder people think that all athletes are criminals. Simply put, athletes live by different standards then everyone else. And it’s unfair. They’re in the spotlight and for some reason this means they should do no wrong even though they’re far from perfect just like everyone else. But being imperfect seems to be unacceptable for an athlete.