Impacts Of Victimization On Women: A Case Study

In Jeanne book Peter's Lullaby, she describes how it was to grow up with an alcoholic and abusive mother and a step-father and he did not protect her and her siblings from this horrific abuse, but allowed it to happen. She begins in her book describing the last night of being hung in her closet before the police, firemen and paramedics arrived to the apartment to rescue her and her siblings from the ungodly and unbearable torture Jeanne and her siblings intruded from their mother. Jeanne describes in great detail the blood soaked cloths that squeezed and that held her wrists that was tied above her head and the mass of pain to her shoulders resulting

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.

She began to feel disheartened; when she says her ‘heart sank further and further’. This tells us that she was feeling disappointed and felt that she should give up but by telling herself that one day life would ‘feel life was approximately a hundred times better’ it kept her going because she thought it would be over at some point and her life would then improve.

She shares her terrifying story in solitary confinement, in hopes of making an impact on this topic. First, she talked about how getting away from the shouts and chaos of the general inmate population was a relief, for about the first 20 minutes. Then she realized she was completely alone for the next month, which left her uneasy. She mentioned how guards were treating her so poorly, that by the time she was let out, she emerged with fear. The guards thought it was funny to chuck her food tray, causing some to spill, giving her less food.

She is hiding in this house away from society, scared to say what she feels or what she wants. In my opinion, I think that this is one of the things that led to her depression, if the narrator was able to express herself from the beginning and not let her husband or anyone control her, as a result she may be in a better condition.

‘’She’s keeping him alive, somewhere. She wants something out of him and while we’re grieving, nobody is out there searching. The kidnapper bought herself time.’’

So she had to move to South Carolina with her mother and stepfather. Once she moved her she felt like her life had took a tragic turn. Her stepfather was abusive to her mother and he really didn’t want her to live with them. She felt out of place and she really missed her father and the way she was use to growing up.

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“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.

This represents the same feelings she is having at the time, the feelings of being trapped and desperate to escape.

She was driven to a house, with an armed guard stationed outside and led to an attached room. And her torture

Not only is she lost, but she is also feels like her life is out of control. After all, she is at a meeting that she had no control over attending. She is in a purse that she did not put herself in. Her surroundings and placement have always been her antagonists. They always worked against her and hindered her from finding her way, keeping her lost and blinding her from locating her family. She wanders aimlessly, but she is at the will of others. The control of others suffocates her dreams and keeps her from getting what she needs; however, being lost and pushed around does not discourage her from continuing to search for a family.

It is significant however, that the narrator herself had absolutely no say in this matter. She was never asked if she thought that it would be of help to spend time in the country. She was never consulted about whether or not it could be her writing that is causing her emotional difficulties. Instead, the men who have power over her decided these things for her, locking her in a nursery and forbidding her to write. Whereas before she was figuratively locked into the role of wife and mother, she is now physically locked into the uppermost room of the summerhouse. Just as she has never been able to leave her prescribed social role, now she cannot leave her wallpapered prison. The narrator's imprisonment echoes all the way back to the female Gothic's classic beginnings in Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Instead of being locked away "in a foreign land... surrounded by vice and violence," the narrator is locked away by the man who should be closest to her and is surrounded by the oppressive patriarchal power structure of her time (Delamotte 206).

Domestic violence has been a main issue throughout history and all over the world; it can evidentially affect children, the elderly, women, and even men. Although abuse can affect many individuals, a significant portion of domestic abuse cases are against women. Globally, women are constantly facing physical, social and mental abuse by men and/or their significant others. In past years, the issue of domestic violence has gained the attention of researchers. In fact, studies have shown that it is a global issue negatively impacting the social and health status of individuals, particularly women. A survey of domestic abuse in Canada signifies that 29% of married women have been abused by their partners at least once (Nwosu, 2006). Many argue

“People dominate animals, men dominate women.” Each is a relation of hierarchy, an inequality, with particularities and variations within and between them. (Cite Orange book pg. 92.) For centuries, women have been viewed and used as a man’s “property”, whether it is being used for sexual satisfaction or for the sake of bearing children and taking care of the home. Men are typically perceived as head of the household and whatever they say goes; anything to satisfy their hunger for power and control. Have women ever had a say about what they want to use their bodies for? Laws against rape may have changed over time, but men’s consistent aggressive behavior unfortunately, has not.