Intimate Partner Violence Analysis

Working with victims of domestic violence can be an extremely rewarding and fulfilling endeavor. One of the most crucial aspects for a paralegal working with victim of domestic violence is adequately engaging in the task of educating oneself to understand the commonalities of such victims and the ordeals that they have been through. Such clients are drastically different from other individuals who have suffered other physical and violent crimes. Understanding the background of someone who has lived through domestic violence is absolutely central to being able to provide adequate and sensitive legal care. Most victims of domestic violence are women (95%) though domestic violence can have an impact on ever age, class, race, ethnic, cultural or religious group (purplerainfoundation, 2012). "In the United States, nearly one in three adult women experience at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood (American Psychological Association, Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family 1996 Report)" (purplerainfoundation, 2012). These women are often terrified of their partner's temper, apologize when they are abused and often in the most extremely controlling and isolated environment where the abusive partner will control who the partner sees and where the partner goes outside of the home, jealous of outside relationships (purplerainfoundation, 2012). In these abusive relationships the women are hit,

Rape related pregnancies requires further studying as it is a significant issue and requires more attention. To date there is a lack of empirical research showing how many women choose to terminate rape related pregnancies but studies remain showing that on average 1% of women who terminate their pregnancy is due to rape (SOURCE 4, 6, 8). Though research on terminating rape-related pregnancies is understudied, there is a vast amount proposing that women who seek to terminate their pregnancy as a result of rape do so later than those who were not raped (1, 2, 4) As discussed earlier, rape is an underreported crime. With an average of 1 in 3 women seeking post assault medical care, abortion may be the first time women with rape-related pregnancies access care after an assault (source

Care for pregnant women is even more dismal, considering their additional health needs” (p. 11). The quantitative report goes on to state that many pregnant offenders have undiagnosed or untreated conditions that can increase the pregnancy risks and contribute to poor birth outcomes. Mothers Behind Bars surveyed all 50 states regarding prenatal care and found: 43 states did not require medical examinations as a component of prenatal care; 41 states did not require prenatal nutrition counseling or the provision of appropriate nutrition; 34 states did not require screening and treatment for high-risk pregnancies; 48 states did not offer advice on activity levels and safety during pregnancy; 45 states did not make advance arrangements for deliveries with particular hospitals; and 49 states failed to report all incarcerated women’s pregnancies and their outcomes (The Rebecca Project for Human Rights and the National Women's Law Center, 2010). Researchers did not list under limitations of their findings if obstetric care was provided inside or contracted to an outside care provider. This information would have been beneficial and may have affected the state’s responses to the survey questions. Ferszt and Clarke (2012) conducted a qualitative survey of 50 wardens, a warden at a women’s correctional

In a country where there are more jails than colleges and a total incarceration population of 2.3 million and eighteen percent being female, it is no surprise that there are roughly 2,000 babies born to female inmates annually. At any given time, between eight and ten percent of the females incarcerated in the United States are pregnant. Currently, only ten states allow a mother to remain with her child after giving birth. For the other mothers, they are to give the baby to a reliable family member within 48 hours otherwise it will be placed in foster care. The current number of women in prison is at an all time high, and while the number for pregnant incarcerated females continues to grow, there is still limited medical treatment for mothers

This article highlights an evaluation conducted used information from CDC’s pregnancy Mortality Surveillance process. Threat reasons for being pregnant-associated homicide have been examined. (being pregnant-associated homicide was once outlined as a loss of life for the period of or inside one 12 months of being pregnant). Homicide was found to be a main intent of pregnancy-associated injury deaths amongst females from 1991–1999. The being pregnant-associated murder ratio used to be 1.7 per one hundred,000 live births. Chance causes included age more youthful than two decades, Black race, and late or no prenatal care

“Future without Violence is working with three Patient Centered Medical Home-Certified Health Centers and domestic violence programs on a pilot project to improve the health outcomes for women through the identification and response to intimate partner violence IPV”(futureswithoutviolence.org ). Health care leaders are working hard to combat many aspect of IPV. Because most perpetrators are victims themselves, it is not that easy to tell if some of them actually know if this is an acceptable behavior. What someone think is right may be wrong for the other person. The National Health Care Workforce Commission, should liaison with the (IOM), Health Resources including the state nursing workforce centers; American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN); AANP (Nurse Practitioners); and the Department of Health and Human Services coupled with the Law enforcement to help bring about changes to IVP. These changes are critical to the health and well-being of all victims throughout the country. The populations in society who are at greatest risk to IVP are vulnerable; sometimes they are too scared to report the issues. Let us all collaborate to develop tools to more thoroughly collect information on how defeat Intimate Partner

In the United States, approximately 1.5 million women report some form of intimate partner violence (IPV) each year and of those an estimated 324,000 are pregnant (Deshpande & Lewis-O'Connor, 2013). According to Deshpande and Lewis-O’Connor (2013), IPV is defined as abuse that may be actual or threatened by an intimate partner that can be physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional in nature. It is important for health care providers to realize IPV does not only include physical or sexual abuse but also includes name calling, financial control, constant criticism, and isolating women away from their families and friends (Deshpande & Lewis-O'Connor, 2013; Smith, 2008). There are 3 phases of abuse tension building

The American Medical Association, expressed punishing women alcohol and other illicit during pregnancy is not an effective way of overcoming the challenges if addition, as well as to prevent future relapse. However, these intimidating and punitive laws are likely to deter women from seeking help (Flavin & Paltrow, 2010). Pregnant incarcerated women do not receive the same prenatal care as women who are not incarcerated. In addition, pregnant women who are incarcerated are at greater risk of being exposed the

This essay explores postpartum depression and crime. Form intensive research, readers should be able to educate themselves on the actual disorder itself, and how it is linked to crime. In fact, more than half of the cases that involve infant fatality in the United States, have resulted from unawareness of mental illness’s such as PPD. Discussed in the essay, is the Andrea Yates cases, which involve a Houston, Texas mother, suffering from postpartum psychosis. However, the outcome of Yates cases, resulted in numerous studies involving women with PPD. However, the main focus of the essay is to express the importance of the disorder, and how crime can be prevented if pregnant mother seek treatment. As specified throughout the essay, PPD is a serious mental disorder.

“The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering and includes threats of such acts” (WHO, 2016). Intimate partner violence (IVP) affects women from all backgrounds. However, numerous studies show that minority women experience IPV a much higher rate. “African American women experience IPV at a rate 35% higher than that of white women, yet they are less likely to use social services and battered women’s programs or seek medical attention for injuries resulting from domestic violence” (Minority, 2013).

In the study by Henriksen et al (2017) the report was well written, laid out and organised. It included appropriate tables with relevant information relating to the study. The study did not indicate the authors qualifications however it stated that the author was attached to the faculty of health sciences, department of nursing and health promotion Oslo. The report title, “It is a difficult topic”- a qualitative study of midwives’ experiences with routine antenatal enquiry for intimate partner violence, was clear and accurate and set the scene for what was going to be discussed in the research paper. The abstract offered a clear overview of the study, it provided a clear background into intimate partner violence and routine enquiry in

Eva M Sundborg, Nouha Saleh-Stattin, Per Wändell and Lena Törnkvist were the authors of this article; however, the credentials of the authors and researchers are not stated in the article. The title of the article contained both the study population, which is nurses, and the key variable, which is the preparedness to care for women exposed to intimate partner violence. The abstract summarized the main features of the report. The abstract discussed that the researchers wanted to assess how prepared the nurses were to identify IPV in women exposed and provide nursing care for

IPV during pregnancy has a direct correlation with health problems for the mother and her unborn baby. Battered women are more likely than non-abused women to initiate prenatal care later in their pregnancy, and may miss subsequent appointments because either the abuser does not allow them to leave the house, or they are afraid to expose the signs of injury (Rose et al. 2011). According to Bailey (2011), IPV during pregnancy is linked to many negative consequences including decreased infant birth weight and increased rates of prematurity. Low birth weights and preterm infants are the leading cause of both neonatal morbidity and mortality. They consume unbalanced amounts of health care resources; and for the surviving babies, adverse initial

In this paper, I will be discussing Filicide, which is defined as the killing of one’s child, in the case maternal filicide, it would be the killing of a child by his or her mother. I will be covering the nature of this type of crime and how it directly relates to the experiences of women. As well as what aspects limits our understanding and why we, society as whole need to be devoid attention to this matter due to the how severe and morally wrong it is in nature. In addition, I will be also covering the responses to this issue by government through legislation and the practices or programs our criminal justice system utilizes in response to this crime. As well as efforts made by advocacy organization in order to find ways to address and bring

Domestic violence is also associated with other mental health problems such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. Women who are abused suffer an increased risk of unplanned or early pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. As trauma victims, they are also at an increased risk of substance abuse. According to a U.S. study, women who experience intimate partner abuse are three times more likely to have gynecological problems than non-abused women. From Violence against Women: Effects on Reproductive Health, Outlook, vol. 20, no. 1 (September 2002). Other evaluations have shown that there are significant obstetric risk factors associated with domestic violence. Abused women are more likely to have a history of sexually transmitted disease infections, vaginal and cervical infections, kidney infections, and bleeding during pregnancy. These can also be all of which are risk factors for pregnant women. Abused women are more likely to delay prenatal care and are less likely to receive antenatal care.