Domestic Violence : Will It Ever End?

Domestic violence is something that happens every day around the world. Young, old, rich or poor, this is an issue that we must look at to better ourselves as a country. One of the things that we look at is how domestic violence relates to the different social classes of the country, this being upper, middle, and lower. Some would thing that it would be more common in lower classes, but the reality of it is domestic violence is a problem across all social classes. In this paper I will discuss different articles about domestic violence and its relation to social class. It is clear to see that many of the articles on this topic focus around women as victims and men get put into a category of the only ones committing violence. From different

The Purpose of this paper is to understand what Domestic violence is and it will also describe the justice system and how it fails to help the victims of domestic violence.

1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime (safehorizon.org). Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior used to establish power and control over another person through fear and intimidation, often including the threat or use of violence. I am that 1 of 4 woman who have experienced an abusive relationship. I was always asked why I didn’t leave or why I didn’t say something, instead of my abuser being asked why. Women are always asked why didn’t you leave, why did this happen, or why didn’t you say something. This can also be called victim blaming. Most of society thinks focusing on the victims of an abusive

According to White, Donat, and Bondurant (2007, p. 95), in the book ‘Taking Sides Clashing Views in Gender’:“Children, especially those from abusive homes, have many opportunities to learn that the more powerful person in a relationship can use aggression to successfully control the less powerful person”. Abused children tend to be caught up in damaged relationships and are not socialized in positive, supportive ways. Children in these situations learn defiance, manipulation, and other problem behaviors as ways of escaping maltreatment. Abuse is a pattern that leads the victims to learn to exploit, degrade, or terrorize. They may also come to expect interpersonal

The history of domestic violence goes back all the way to the start of mankind. Ever since lower people were taken advantage of by higher people in society. The men were much stronger than the women which resulted in the women usually being the ones abused. In the beginning, the man had every right to abuse his woman. If you stare back into the 1940’s and 1950’s you will notice that little was done to stop domestic violence. The police would get involved but would leave the situation to be resolved by the family members. As suggested in the peer-reviewed article “Domestic violence past and present” by Anna Clark, policemen would just tell the man to composed himself and the woman to stop aggravating him. For example, in the sentence “Before the 1970s, judges and police officers still saw wife beating as a trivial offense—policemen would tell husbands to calm down and wives to stop annoying them, and cases rarely came to court. Popular culture depicted wife beating as a joke, and psychiatrists saw it as a pathology of the

This can lead in practice again to safeguarding issues as the most supportive agencies or operating authorities focusing on women and children (Harne et al,2008, p.11). Moreover, it can be argued that regarding domestic violence also occasional problems can arise such as lack of accurate statistics as it is difficult to ascertaining precise statistics as domestic violence does not always get reported because of the power relation. In practice this can create difficulties for policies maker and practitioner in providing sources to address but also to reduce the problem. Additionally, it can be stated that because of the lack of reliable figures, it is difficult to identify in practice, what does really work to reduce domestic violence regarding reduction policies and strategies (Harne et al., 2008, p.25). However, if domestic violence takes place, then the police is the most established, expansive service available to the public, with the power to arrest or to declare a violent incident as a crime. On the one hand, it can be argued that victims do not always recognise that in instance violence or sexual abuse in a partnership, count as well as a crime and therefore it is likely that victims consider the possibility

But there are also others that are encouraging people to tell their story. Julie is one of the few women that was strong and was willing to tell her story. Julie since she was a little girl, remember how her father was always beating up her mom. She even said that somehow violence and abuse is all I’ve really ever known… A lot of my childhood memories consist of my father beating up my mom.(Julie’s Domestic violence”) As most little girls being afraid of their dad. Julie ran away from that “monster” she call her dad. She as well as her mom had been beaten up for no reason. Julie could remember some words that she repeated to her dad. “I could still hear my pleas as a child to my father to stop. I could still feel the pain.”(Julie’s domestic Violence”). Julie always thought to herself that she will never fall in the same situation as her and her mom did. She was determined that this will never happen again in her life. As most 15 year old teenage girls that fall in love at a young age, Julie was one of them. She never felt so happy in her life until she met him. Julie’s “lover” knew what was her life at home with his dad. So they started dating. The first year of their relationship, she was the happiest girl in the whole planet , she couldn't ask for anything else in the world. She was deeply in love. At age 16 she found out that she was pregnant with a little girl.(Julie’s Domestic Violence”). During that pregnancy that's when the whole abuse began, both emotional and physical. With no warning signs, he would smack her, pull her hair and spit at her.(“Julie’s Domestic Violence”). The abuse was repeatedly happening to her. Then two years later she got pregnant again, this time he did not attend to his second daughter's birth. He basically kept her isolated , like she was a prisoner in her own home. No family. No friends. No support. And then, four months later she got pregnant again, this time with fraternal

It will look at the historical fabric of the family. How family hierarchal structure that believes the husband is the head of the house and the wife as submissive justifies domestic violence in each culture. The second section will examine how the countries differ in their expression and manifestation of domestic violence due to cultural influences. In addition what are the causes of domestic violence in each country along with the impact on the victims and children who witness such abuses. It will also address that men and women are both victims of domestic violence and the differences in gendered violence in each country. Thereafter, the paper will look at how authorities have responded effectively to domestic violence. It will talk about the evolving laws in each country or lack thereof, and how underreporting is influencing policing an impeding the laws. Next, the fourth section will examine the theories and explanations provided for the prevalence of domestic violence in each country while providing a critical analysis of each theory. Furthermore, the fifth part of the paper will make some predictions based on current trends in domestic violence in each country while providing recommendations for an effective criminal justice response. Finally, the thesis ends with a conclusion restating the objective of the research and

Data and detailed information about cases of domestic violence can be only obtained by inviting people to participate in survey. The participants for the survey should include victims, accused, and witnesses in form of child, neighbours, colleagues and general public. Victims help in answering many questions like reason for domestic violence, whether it is influenced by alcohol or is hereditary, the extent of physical injury, mental trauma suffered and how it affected their lives. The participants take part in survey and help in finding out the percentage of domestic violence cases in a particular area. Every case of domestic violence is different and in some cases it leads to extreme incidents

There are various reasons a woman may accept or put up with the abuse received while in an intimate relationship. The first is reason is fear. Fear, due to lack of personal power, ensnares battered woman and brings rise to immediate concerns of greater injury or possibly death by presenting their male partner with opposing views, such as divorce or police intervention. Continuing on in the past it was deemed acceptable, due to cultural norms, for males to physically chastise their partner. The females often justified these actions, like abuse, with hopes for reform of their male counterparts or live with the abusiveness because of love and the cultural responsibility that the woman should “weather the storm” as it were and keep the relationship

As increasing number of women are gaining more rights globally as well as their economic power. However, domestic violence, especially violence against both women and children from associated partner remaining a broad issue that need to be addressed. Public health studies indicated that a large number of people have the experience of witnessing varies degree of violence within the family. I believe that when speaking of family violence, there is a picture that comes out of our mind. It usually started with a quarrel between the parents, the husband and wife had some sort of disagreement, and the man gradually lost his patience and

Domestic violence can be viewed as a complex and challenging behavior that directly affects the very basic role of the parents i.e. providing care to the children (Wolfe & Jaffe, 1999). There have been numerous researches going on around the world to find the relation among domestic violence and its impacts on the

Domestic abuse has been going on for centuries now. This abuse was identified around the time of the feminist movement. As the definition, the feminist theory states, “To say that a woman is a human being is to disentangle her from the dangerous nexus of objectification, prejudice, and cultural norms and it is, most importantly, to establish her on an equal footing with ‘men’ and all that his subject-position provides” (Rich). A women, like anyone else in this world is a human being. Women did not have many rights back then for example, “During the 1780’s a women could not sue her husband for inflicting violence on her” (Morse) This allowed domestic abuse to come into play, and making it seem okay to do so for men.

Most studies on Gender Based Violence have focused on physical, sexual, and psychological manifestations alone. This dissertation seeks to highlight and draw attention to the types of violence and the socio legal conditions of the victims who has faced domestic violence and the development of women and her family, i.e. Children and health.

I choose to write about the social problems that impact the woman and children in family violence, I chose this topic because I wanted to know why do women continue to stay in a domestic abuse situation. Domestic violence can be defined as a planned pattern of power and control carried out by your partner, it includes sexual violence, physical violence, emotional violence and psychological violence (UNICEF,2017). According to our textbook one spouse out of every six experiences domestic violence, and one kills a spouse because of domestic violence “six tines out of seven the woman is the victim” ,no other crime comes close to this (Henslin 370). For instance,physical abuse against a woman includes For instance, physical abuse against a