Women Stay? Domestic violence is a serious and complex plague of society that affects all‚ but women make up the largest number of victims in most case studies. In the United States alone‚ "1.5 million women are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year. More than 500‚000 women victims require medical treatment‚ and 324‚000 victims are pregnant at the time of assault" (Berlinger‚ "Taking" 42). Numbers like these show how intense the situation of domestic violence truly is. "Two
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Relationship Between Gender and Domestic Violence Summary: This article discusses the relationship between gender and domestic violence. For many reasons‚ people commonly believe that domestic violence is more likely equal to wife abuse or woman abuse. But this prejudice is erroneous. On the one hand‚ because of the definition of domestic violence including dating or cohabitation and modern research finds that husbands as well as wives may be victims‚ domestic violence is not more likely equal to wife
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(Hansen‚ 2001). Raped women (and raped men) have been absent from historical records that usually describe the victories‚ defeats‚ and heroic battles from a male perspective (see for instance Nikolic-Ristanovic‚ 2002). In discourses on collective violence wartime rape was silenced‚ placed outside the political sphere and therefore rendered mute by appropriation into the language of property rights‚ with women considered
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Protecting Women from Domestic Violence “Domestic violence is the most ubiquitous constant in women’s lives around the world. There is virtually no place where it is not a significant problem‚ and women of no race‚ class‚ or age are exempt from its reach” -Joni Seager Abstract: Domestic violence against women is a social problem that occurs in nearly every corner of the world. Recently‚ some states have begun to recognize that women must be protected from abuse by family members and intimates
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to domestic violence‚ available data on the effectiveness of domestic violence protection orders is limited (Young‚ Byles & Dobson‚ 2000). In addition to this‚ the personal characteristics‚ such as age‚ marital status‚ education and mental health of domestic violence offenders is also limited with no available data on the reasons why domestic violence offenders breach domestic violence orders and why these offenders are not deterred by the legal ramifications of breaching a domestic violence protection
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Domestic violence should not be allowed to happen in a relationship because it hurts the person mentally and physically and could also cause them to become handicapped. Domestic violence is a act of violence or aggressive type of behavior within ones home. It usually involves violent abuse between a spouse or a partner .However‚ victims can be anyone. It causes a person to feel unloved because they are being beat 24/7. It is not easy to tell if the relationship will become abusive or not at the beginning
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in-depth study of ethics and values within social work; domestic violence | Social Work Report | Gavin Simpson | Abstract: Introduction: Short term aim: Raise awareness for current and future social workers about the ethical dilemmas they face whilst dealing with domestic abuse cases. I also aim to complete this assignment for the purposes of completing an Access to Social Work Diploma. Long term aim: Bring this subject to the attention of social workers who are likely to face at some
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those who need it‚ domestic violence is still a problem that must be dealt with. The victims of domestic violence have real problems that need attention‚ but it seems as if the issues these people face are not top priority. There are multiple things that are going on in a domestic violence situation‚ but to someone on the outside looking in‚ the obvious choice would be to get out of the situation and leave. History of the Domestic Violence Population Domestic violence wears many different
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Through the existence of social control many groups of people learned to interact with and influence ones behavior through mechanisms of a formal or informal responses to a situation. Social control is implemented from birth and can be seen throughout life. Social control is implemented everyday in work and at home. Without social control the structure and rule of society would disintegrate. In everyday life examples of social control are seen. For example when a child has committed or partaken
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Domestic violence is mainly physical‚ but also psychological‚ sexual or financial violence that happens within a family or a family type relationship. The main pattern that occurs within domestic violence is gender. The most common form of domestic violence is the abuse of women by men. 1 in 4 women has been assaulted by a partner at some time in her life time‚ 1 in 8 repeatedly so. Groups in society most at risk of domestic violence include children‚ people in lower social classes‚ those living
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