The Ethical Violation Of Domestic Violence Against Women

Criminal Justice professionals make decisions everyday and they have to be able to recognize when an issue involves ethical considerations. In order to recognize these issues and make appropriate and correct decisions. One of the topics facing criminal justices professional today is violence against women. According to the National Institute of Justice, about 1.3 million women are physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year. And stalking is more common than previously thought. One needs to improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system’s response to these crimes. There needs to be better guidelines in place to assure this number decline.

Domestic violence is one of those gender related violations that has had a long past but a short history. It is only recently that domestic violence has been considered a violation of the law. Although men have battered, abused and
The emergence of monogamous pairing relationships, designed to provide women protection from violation by men other than their spouses and guarantee husbands their identities and rights as fathers, resulted in a dependency status of wives in the legal, social and economic spheres (Martin, 1976). The monogamous marriage was characterized by differential power between the partners. The wife’s sole purpose was to satisfy her husband’s needs, bearing his children and tending to his household (Martin, 1976). In medieval times, husbands had the power of life and death over their dependents and the right to unrestrained physical chastisement of members of the household, including their wives and children (Pleck, 1987). Physical cruelty, including murder of a wife or a serf, was allowed as long as it was inflicted for disciplinary purposes (Davis, 1971). Women were killed by their husbands for reasons such as talking back, scolding and nagging, and miscarrying children (Martin,