Domestic Violence Offenders: A Case Study

Throughout the world, we hear many stories about individuals being victimized, and individuals who have are the perpetrators. Also, many of these news segments are based off of headed situations between intimate relationships. Many relationships become this way because of stress about work, paying bills, past circumstances, and much more. There are many micro and macro level risk factors that pertain to victims (prior history of intimate partner violence, female sex, and youth), and perpetration (anger issues, low self-esteem, low income, and depression). “These factors are some of the very important factors that shape victimization and perpetration in intimate partner violence” (Seccombe, 2015, p.318).

Critically analyse what you consider to be the most significant changes in the criminal justice system relating to one particular area.

Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior or coercive control in any relationship that is used by one person to gain or maintain power and control over another. (Violence). Most of society’s think domestic violence is when one of the spouses is abusing the other spouse. Domestic violence can occur between anyone who has lived together at one point of time; couples who have never lived together, but have a child together and family member who has live together in the same household. Domestic violence can happen to anyone, regardless of their class, religion, ethnic background, education, age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, gender presentation, or immigration status. The domestic violence can place in different categories, such as; emotional abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse and financial abuse. Researcher had discovered tactics that the abusers use to control their victims such as; dominance, humiliation, isolation, threats, intimidation, denial and shifting blame. (Helpguide.org).

This article discussed a study done to find out if strategic therapy could be done successfully with high risk domestic violence perpetrators. Domestic homicides were shown to have been planned at an overwhelming 82.9% of the time. The study also covers if anything can be done in terms of dealing with those high risk of committing domestic violence acts that are able to avoid arrest and the judicial system. A collection of 37 files of convicted domestic violence perpetrators were assessed with a Danger Assessment tool (DA) and indicated that 86.5% of the perpetrators examined displayed indications of being at risk for committing domestic homicide. The purpose of the study was to see if preventative measures could be used on domestic violence perpetrators displaying indications of committing domestic homicide. Most homicides occurred during the time of the relationship ending. Some indicators that were displayed frequently by DH perpetrators were constant and violent jealousy, total control over lives of victims, child support, threatening to kill or assault, and forced sexual acts.

McColgan et al, 2010 defines the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) as the specific act of violence

Although becoming friends with clients with has many issues, some clinical psychologists have gone further than this and have had sexual relationships with their clients. Like friendships with clients, sexual relationships with clients can be harmful. If a clinical psychologist has a relationship with a client, their arguments could escalate into intimate partner violence. Kuther (2017) states that “about 36% of women and 29% of women experience intimate partner violence defined as rape, physical violence, or stalking at some point in their lifetime.” Intimate partner violence is a terrible thing to happen to a person, and it would be horrific for a trusted clinical psychologist to treat a client this way. Sexual relationships could also result

Due to the lack of resources available for members of the lesbian and gay community, I am looking to start a program that caters to that population. The program will assist lesbians and gay folks who are in violent intimate relationships with immediate services aimed at stopping future violence. This program is important because it provides a safe space to an under-served populations that is faced with issues of intimate violence.

CM Gilmore conducted a phone interview with Becky Croft regarding the family of Tiffany Croutharmel. CM Gilmore explained the reason for the visit. Becky reported the following information:

When deciding whether to arrest a domestic abuser the police should consider the financial impact of the arrest on the abuser’s family. The reason being because, according to Harmening, “In many cases, if not most cases, the family will remain intact throughout and following the judicial proceedings” (p. 135). Meaning that the abused does not leave the abuser even when police has intervened, and when the judicial proceedings are done, the abuser returns to live with his family. Therefore, the strain that the cost of court fees, attorneys and/or bail would put on their financial situation would add more stress to the family. Then, that stress acts as fuel to the abuser’s anger and frustration. Resulting in the abuser to even become more vicious

“...Wilkinson Arrested for Domestic Dispute”, “...domestic violence features Dan “Big Daddy Wilkinson””, etc. These were the headlines that swarmed news sources in late 1995. Cincinnati Bengals defensive linemen, weighing in at an optimum 315 pounds, struck his girlfriend in the stomach. What would have been a typical domestic violence blow, except young Shawnda Lamarr was pregnant. His plead? Not guilty, and was simply instructed to obey a restraining order. “A 3 year study shows that while male student-athletes comprise 3.3% of the populations, they represent 19% of sexual assault perpetrators and 35% of domestic violence perpetrators” (NCAVA Benedict/Crosset Study). This statistic, along with many other stunning statements upset many involved in the college sports world. One of

“About a month ago San Francisco 49ers player Reuben Foster had a domestic violence arrest after his welfare check for possessing an assault rifle. He was held in Santa Clara but later released after seventy-five thousand dollars bail was posted” (Murphy, NFLArrests.com). The NFL is not taking domestic violence arrests seriously.The laws have improved, in recent news there have been arrests of important sports figures. Fans feelings about the NFL’s new six-game suspension policy, have mixed feelings. A new idea to try and lower the cases of abuse would be to have courses in school to educate kids about the difference between a healthy relationship and unhealthy relationship. The NFL needs to take these charges seriously, and fire players that are abusing their wives.

Hence, they would be charged fully for the attack, but not for domestic abuse in its fullest form. This is the most common form of physical violence that men experiences, with the knife as the weapon of choice for abusive women (Drijber et al., 174). Regardless of the results from numerous studies, it is still difficult to view women as perpetrators of domestic violence crimes due to the belief of female victimhood (Busch and Rosenberg, 49). This concept connects richly to gender-role stereotypes in America. The female against male domestic violence would be considered non-prototypical, or overlooked in simple terms. The sex of the individual(s) in a domestic violence incident tends to predict what responses should be expressed (Seelau and

There are few studies some of which are conflicting studies that examine if prosecution of domestic violence offenders deters future abuse, though, some studies suggest that interventions have no substantiating influence on the odds of reoffending (Broidy, Albright, Denman, 2015). In three U. S. states a study found offenders who were prosecuted and convicted were more likely to be rearrested than offenders who were not convicted whereas other studies found prosecution can reduce following arrest and violence (Gosselin, 2014). According to Gosselin (2014), prosecuting offenders without acknowledgment of the specific risk factors does not deter further criminal abuse, unlike arresting intimate partner violence (IPV) offenders. However, some

The introduction of the article iterates the need for studies on father and child relations in correlation to child abuse and domestic violence. The objective is to study the well being of families in correspondence to the involvement of the fathers as well as present information from the study about fathers of at risk families. The social problem mentioned in the article is the lack of research and information on the involvement of fathers in families at risk for child abuse.

United Nations in Article 1 - Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women defines domestic violence as "any act of gender based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."[1]. As was ruled by the Supreme Court in Section 177(1) of the Housing Act, domestic violence can occur psychologically, physically or emotionally and also any other form of abuse which, directly or indirectly, may give rise to the risk of harm [3]. As reported in the Fornah case [4], common violent acts include Female genital mutilation, forced marriage, forced prostitution and sexual slavery. Mental violence also is now recognised as a form of violence as was established in Yemshaw v Hounslow London Borough Council [5]. Domestic violence is wrongly associated mostly with the female gender due to historic gender-based discrimination as mentioned by Bonita Meyersfeld in [2]. This is not usually the case, as children and men also have been victims of violence even in recent times.