Causes Of Intimate Partner Violence

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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, intimate partner violence affects more females than males and is considered as the number one cause of injuries in women ages 15 to 44 (76%) compared to males (24%) (Truman & Morgan, 2014). Intimate partner violence (IPV) can happen in any relationship including same sex and transgender relationships. IPV starts with emotional abuse and may advance to physical or sexual battering. The National Center of Prevention of Injury defines physical violence as “the intentional use of physical force (e.g., shoving, choking, shaking, slapping, punching, burning, or use of a weapon, restraints, or one's size and strength against another person) with the potential for causing death, disability,
C.Cate works closely with the Randolph Police department to try to identify Intimate partner violence victims in the community.The Public nurse and The Randolph police work together to refer people that are identified or show signs of being in an abusive relationship to Dove who is the lead of domestic violence agency for the south shore area (personnal interview March 22, 2016).Cheryl Cates explained that Randolph is a very diverse community with people with different background. many immigrants are hesitant to report any type of abuse including emotional abuse that it is related to cultural and their own definition of abuse. Randolph has an Haitian and an Asian community health projects in place because they are two dominants cultures in the town . they held a monthly luncheon where different tropic including violence prevention are discuss each month. She also run ongoing educational program prevention especially with young people in the community to spread awareness that domestic violence is illegal in every state . C Cate highly recommend dove website for additional ressources at
Dove is the only domestic violence organization in Norfolk County which includes shelters, and also serves the greater South Shore. The website is very instructive and easy to use. Dove has a 25 bed shelter to assist victim and their families. the agency also provides education, emergency shelter, and assists those in need with legal matters as well as providing support groups to help victims. In addition, Dove has a hotline where individuals agency has an anonymous 24 hours hotline.To better assist their clientele, Dove employs several multilingual staff that works with the police departments in Randolph, Milton and Holbrook to provide education, workshop and training to the