Female Victims Of Gendered Violence

Black women experience a lot of things in life differently from others, because of their intersectionality of being not only a woman, but also black. They are a double minority and they feel this double minority through many different aspects within their lives. The aspect that black women deal with differently, is domestic violence. Black women experience and deal with domestic violence differently than white women, and anyone who else experience domestic violence. Through this paper I would like to explain this difference that black women face when tackling domestic violence due to the “family secret”, but also how it effects children within the black community, how it can affect the entire community, and lastly why black women should let go of the “family secret” to not only better themselves, but to better the black community. They experience a different struggle than other victims call the “family secret”. The “family secret” is in general, keeping the secret of domestic violence within the family because it is a family issue. The “family secret has destroyed families and caused many deaths within the population of black women. Other than these problems of holding this so called “family secret”, I want to speak on the effects this has on the black community, such as, how black women who do not speak on their issues of domestic violence continue a cycle of violence within young black girls. Black women need to speak on their issues of domestic violence, instead of

Police brutality and feminism are some of the issues the United States faces today. Police have always been an issue for people to deal with especially for the black community. Numerous African American males have encountered situations where they have been accused of crimes or beaten by the police. Feminism dates back to history where women were discriminated and degraded because of their gender. In today’s society, many of these conflicts still occur today and many prejudicial statements are made to downgrade women as a whole. In the book “Meet Me Halfway; Milwaukee Stories” written by Jennifer Morales, she addresses these two topics that people face everyday. In her book, she states the issues that African Americans face in

This essay will discuss the ways in which gender influences patterns and processes of victimisation, identifying key victimological perspectives and typologies. It will consider key authors in the discipline and offer definitions of terms used. The essay will identify three issues which may impact on gendered victimisation before acknowledging the argument that radical victimology offers a more balanced approach to gendered victimisation than positivist or critical viewpoints.

The article , “Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community” provided useful evidence that helped me support my essay and explain more into depth and connect to the book, “Meet Me Halfway; Milwaukee Stories” by Jennifer Morales. Nancy C.M. Hartsock’s book helped me gain new knowledge about feminism and apply it to the connection of both book and the police brutality article. I am writing this essay towards the people who needs to be inform about these issues even if they have never experience these problems, people should be more cautious of what today’s society is facing because it could affect the future in ways that will worsen the problem . With this essay, larger purpose is to explain how racism still affects the black community as a whole and how feminism is being discriminated. With the researched that I’ve done, many black men are disproportionately being racially profiled and targeted by white police officers because of their skin color and sexism and feminism is highly portrayed negatively that makes women look

“Domestic violence is a type of abuse by one or both partners in marriage, friends, family, dating or cohabitation” (Aziz & Mahmoud, 2010). There are many forms of abuse from verbal and emotional to physical that often escalates over time in intensity for the victim. Data from the criminal justice system, hospital patient medical records and mental health records, police reports, surveys and social services reports of thousands of women revealed that many are injured and killed as a result of violence from someone close to them. “The US Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) defines domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender” (Robertson & Murachver, 2009). Researchers and the criminal justice system have not been able to agree on a clear definition to domestic violence which can range from physical injury, stalking, verbal abuse and humiliation, denial of shelter and access to money, and intimidation through aggressive behaviors. The definition of domestic violence may vary but the results from physical injury, mental and emotional trauma, and sometimes even death can last a life time.

For generations, many people have been domestically abused and their experiences justified by the media. Far too often, society seems to say that, “It was the victims fault” or, the victim “had it coming to them.” These are just some of the examples that people give to make domestic violence seem acceptable. Women and men are receiving an unfair and untold share of their story. When you are a domestic violence victim, you have to ask yourself, “Who can I tell?” That question is imperative because in our modern society, people will bend the truth in order to get what they want. Major media outlets and other publications are misrepresenting the truth about domestic violence. Rebecca Laufer, Ph.D. in Psychology, exploits the media’s actions

The process Ferraro and Johnson outline is important because it illustrates the most prolific sub group who experience this process which are women. 1.) After a violent act occurs, victims try to grasp the situation and soon downplay the act as a one-time event. 2.) Cognitive devices inhibit a victim’s ability to recognize rage and instead rationalize the offender’s positive traits and aspects. Only until the victim has been exposed to repeated incidents of violent do they then start to cognitively understand their situation. 3.) The empowering of the victim, in which a victim comes to term for being victimized and begins the process of rebuilding self-confidence (Ferraro, K. J., & Johnson, J. M. 1983). This process focuses on women, but is however a common outline of how many victims rationalize crimes against them. A variety of factors can also include, low victim confidence in justice system, mental abuse, mental health, culture conformity, intimidation all as factors that can effect victimization

Women-as-passive-victims predominate in the works of Perrault, Grimms, and Disney because woman always allowed and accepted what men had to say. In the 16th and 17th century it was unheard of for woman to be dominated over men, it was a do as I say and that’s the end. Knowing that men dominated in these times woman played the role of the victim and never had that upper hand over a man to make him feel less than or portrayed that way in stories. Even in stories like “Little red Riding Hood” by Perrault the woodsman is the one who saves Red and her grandmother cutting them out of the wolfs stomach. Red and her grandmother are the victims and because of Red talking to strangers and letting the wolf know where she was going she has now put herself and grandmother’s life in danger. The dominance in this situation is still a man and he saves the day helping Red to understand what wrongs she did.

Nearly one in four women in the United States reports experiencing violence by a current or former spouse or boyfriend at some point in her life (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008). As stated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “ These are our sisters, mothers, friends, family members, neighbors, and co-workers”.Should women that suffer from “battered woman's syndrome” be charged with murder for killing there abuser? “The term "battered woman syndrome" was introduced in the late 1970s by psychologist Lenore Walker to explain the psychological problems of women who are caught in a cycle of domestic violence” (ProQuest Staff).The mind of a typical domestically abused women has been diagnosed, monitored, and studied by professionals numerous of times. However, one may believe “battered women syndrome” should be used as an excuse in court, with prior evidence for self defense and mental illness if the women being abused had suffered domestic violence tragically.

specific gender in a violence attack. When we refer to wider research in populations, like a study

The topic of this research is male violence and aggression against women in the United States. My research question is “Is male violence against women dependent upon location and setting?” I am studying different forms of male violence or aggression against women because I want to discover the locations and settings in which females are most vulnerable and most oftentimes victimized. This knowledge will ultimately enable policymakers and advocates to better understand where and why these atrocities take place, as well as in what ways they affect American women. I believe an increased awareness amongst men and women alike will initiate changes in protecting women, as well as make

Police brutality and feminism are some of the issues the United States faces today. Police have always been an issue for people to deal with especially for the black community. Numerous African American males have encountered situations where they have been accused of crimes or beaten by the police. Feminism dates back to history where women were discriminated and degraded because of their gender. In today’s society, many of these conflicts still occur today and many prejudicial statements are made to downgrade women as a whole. In the book “Meet Me Halfway; Milwaukee Stories” written by Jennifer Morales, she addresses these two topics that people face everyday. In her book, she states the issues that African Americans face in historical and present times. These two conflicting topics can heavily cause a great deal of controversial problems.

In regards to the issue of gender-related violence, the literature might suggest two possible approaches. One is that the incidence of violence against women could be reduced by way of a stronger state. The second is that the incidence of violence against women is best addressed with greater representation and leadership by women. This paper will examine both of these arguments. It will conclude that neither explanation has the potential to resolve issues of gendered violence independently. The combination of a strong state and adequate female representation in parliament will decrease the prevalence of violence against women. Central to this paper will be the debate over which influence, either socialization or biology, can account for a higher number of male perpetrators of violence.

Despite women are of higher status socially in many countries than before, it is found that domestic violence against women is still a universal problem. This paper will explore the phenomenon gender-based violence in Hong Kong as compared to the global situation.

It is evident from the study that violence incidents against women do not only follow any particular time but also the age and profession. Among the respondents majority (students 73%, young female working women 27%) by their different age groups and two broad professions stated their experiences in this regards that they faced incidents any time throughout the 24 hours of a day. There is no specific time duration for occurring violence incident. The study revealed that majority of the respondents about 43% faced occurrences both time at day and night. However, about 36% respondents faced violence at day time while 21% (about) faced at night (Table 4).