Domestic Violence Article Summary
It is a common misconception to think that intimate partner violence, or domestic violence, is a one-sided dilemma—meaning solely male perpetrators and female victimization. . Given the fact that the media primarily focuses the public’s attention on the battered woman. Although found that intimate partner violence (IPV) is predominantly a crime against women. The Domestic Violence Hotline states that more than one in four men in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime (women are at more than one in three). In July of 2014, The Domestic Violence Hotline but out an article titled Men Can Be Victims men are more likely to be victims of violent crimes overall, the U.S.
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When searching domestic violence in the news, Johnny Manziel is the first search regarding his domestic violence dispute. The first five pages is male perpetrators and female victims. It isn’t until page six a woman appears in a mug shot; the headline reads: Elderly Alabama woman who stabbed, spray-painted husband indicted for domestic violence. In the article, the writer gave a reasoning behind the abuse: “She (Patsy Witt Dixon) told investigators her relationship with her husband was strained because he'd quit his job and was secretly talking to other women on Facebook” (AL, Bonvillian) yet, in every single male perpetrated domestic dispute, no reasoning is provided as to why these men committed this …show more content…
It is because of the aid from the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 that feminist researchers were able to put more research into female delinquency patterns, in hopes of formulating gender-specific theories. In regard to criticisms on feminism, feminist criminologists are interested in how constructs of gender play a role in offending behaviors; it does not ignore men and masculinity in spite of the myth that says feminism focuses too narrowly on women. “It is necessary to examine masculinity and men’s lives and viewpoints in order to fully understand women’s lives” (Belknap, page 10). The feministic project thus became to find a way to describe and change both men’s and women’s lives by introducing gender equality into the already tainted picture of
When searching domestic violence in the news, Johnny Manziel is the first search regarding his domestic violence dispute. The first five pages is male perpetrators and female victims. It isn’t until page six a woman appears in a mug shot; the headline reads: Elderly Alabama woman who stabbed, spray-painted husband indicted for domestic violence. In the article, the writer gave a reasoning behind the abuse: “She (Patsy Witt Dixon) told investigators her relationship with her husband was strained because he'd quit his job and was secretly talking to other women on Facebook” (AL, Bonvillian) yet, in every single male perpetrated domestic dispute, no reasoning is provided as to why these men committed this …show more content…
It is because of the aid from the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 that feminist researchers were able to put more research into female delinquency patterns, in hopes of formulating gender-specific theories. In regard to criticisms on feminism, feminist criminologists are interested in how constructs of gender play a role in offending behaviors; it does not ignore men and masculinity in spite of the myth that says feminism focuses too narrowly on women. “It is necessary to examine masculinity and men’s lives and viewpoints in order to fully understand women’s lives” (Belknap, page 10). The feministic project thus became to find a way to describe and change both men’s and women’s lives by introducing gender equality into the already tainted picture of