Domestic Violence
- Created by: ecotts
- Created on: 15-05-17 15:28
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- Domestic Violence
- Any physical, sexual, psychological or emotional abuse between a couple or family members
- 2 million people reported having been a victim of domestic violence in 2012
- 1 incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute
- 35 assaults are made before the police are informed
- 2 women a week are killed by a current or former male partner
- 1 in 4 women will be a victim of domestic violence in their lifetime
- Men less likely to report abuse as it makes them look unmanly, weak
- Dar
- fear of reprisals (comeback), too trivial (not important) which is why they don't report it
- Cheal
- Family seen as a private sphere and are postive
- 6.5% of all incident were reports in 2006-11
- Women often keep domestic violence hidden form friends and family because...
- feel ashamed and frightened
- Strong love, think it won't happen again
- Blame themselves
- scared of the consequences from reporting it
- Radical Feminist
- Dobash & Dobash
- men dominate women through dv
- Evidence of patricharcy
- men dominate women through dv
- However
- Not all men are violent, women can be violent to men too
- some more vulnerable groups more at risk
- Dobash & Dobash
- Material
- some groups more at risk than others (low income)
- Lack of resource, time and money
- DV results form stress of family members caused by inequality and poverty
- Helps explain DV in lower classes
- Ansley; wives are takers of ****
- Doesn't explain why women rather than men
- some groups more at risk than others (low income)
- Any physical, sexual, psychological or emotional abuse between a couple or family members
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