PEACE Domestic Violence Agency HSM 270 - Program Summary Axia – University of Phoenix STUDENT’S NAME Date‚ 2009 OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM PEACE Domestic Violence Agency provides a variety of ways to improve the efficiency of domesticated issues‚ servicing victims of sexual assaults and domestic violence. Their central focus is derived from a strategic mission statement‚ consequential approach‚ which essentially regulates the business’ calculated goals. Central Focus: I.) Decrease victim
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Brief Explanation on Domestic Violence: Domestic violence (DV) is one the most common types of crimes‚ which takes place in peoples’ homes behind the close doors and characterized by unequal power relations. DV happens in almost all cultures‚ races‚ society classes and countries and is rarely reported. Women are eight times more likely to be the victims than men (Ferrante et al.1996). ‘Each year 1.5 million women are physically or sexually assaulted by an intimate partner’ (Tjaden & Thoennes‚ 1998
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Domestic abuse is one of the most common types of family violence. The generic definition of domestic abuse is when one member of a family‚ relationship‚ or marriage abuses another member in their relationship. There are many signs of domestic abuse as well as many causes. The main argument people can propose about domestic violence is whether it’s ethical. Also‚ whether the person who is being abused earned‚ or deserved‚ the abuse. I understand that some individuals argue that the person being abused
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APPROACHES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Classification of the literature about violence against women is difficult because violence against women cannot be understood in terms of a single factor. Most of the researchers focus on a few different reasons and not on a single one to explain why men use violence against women. Their arguments are sometimes so similar that even their approach is defined in different perspectives. For example‚ approaches by Gelles and Straus‚ who have many essays and research on
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The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children Trudy Root Kaplan University CM107-11 Children are negatively impacted by the surrounding of domestic violence in multiple ways‚ in which need to be identified. The audience that needs to be aware of domestic abuse’s effects on children is adults that care for children; such as pediatricians‚ teachers‚ counselors‚ and parents. The issue that needs to be addressed is the negative effects on children involved in a domestic violence situation. Many
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of posttraumatic stress on child witnesses to domestic violence. The scholarly article found in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry was investigated to aid in this inquiry. The article hypothesized that children witnessing domestic violence are predisposed to the same level of posttraumatic stress simultaneous to if they were the direct victims of physical abuse or sexual abuse. A sample of 35 children‚ 20 whom have witnessed domestic violence and 15 who had not‚ were assessed. The children
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Domestic Violence Against Men Statistics for the Behavioral & Social Sciences PSY 325 Instructor: October 17‚ 2011 When we think if domestic violence we automatically think that it is against the female in a relationship but it is becoming more and more prevalent that the abuse is where the male is the victim. Research has proven that little or no concerns or given to battered men who cry out for help from law enforcement officers and in the courts the cases are given minimum
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Gish‚ J. A.; Gill‚ M. J. (2010). "Domestic Violence Screening: Prevalence and Outcomes in a Canadian HIV Population". AIDS Patient Care and STDs 24 (12): 763–770. doi:10.1089/apc.2010.0235. PMID 21138382. edit 3. ^ Markowitz‚ Sara (2000). "The Price of Alcohol‚ Wife Abuse‚ and Husband Abuse". Southern Economic Journal 67 (2): 279–303. doi:10.2307/1061471. JSTOR 1061471. 4. ^ a b Dutton‚ D. G. (1994). "Patriarchy and wife assault: The ecological fallacy". Violence and victims 9 (2): 167–182. PMID 7696196
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INTRODUCTION : “Violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women‚ which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women...” The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women‚ General Assembly Resolution‚ December 1993 Since the 1990s‚ there has been increasing concern about violence against women in general‚ and domestic violence in particular
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Domestic Violence and its Causes and Effects Domestic violence is when an intimate partner‚ such as a spouse or a person you are close with‚ physically‚ sexually‚ or psychologically abuses you. An abuser can come from all different types of backgrounds. Although there are no known causes why some people abuse others‚ there are a few theories to explain this behavior. Domestic Violence affects all races‚ ethnicities‚ and genders. It occurs in dating relationships‚ marriages‚ heterosexual relationships
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