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Domestic Violence
- Statistics
- Too widespread to be behaviour
of 'a few disturbed individuals'.
- BCS estimated 6.6 million
assaults per year. Mainly
by men against women.
- Nearly 1 in 4
women
assaulted by a
partner.
- Yearnshire - 35 assaults before reporting abuse.
- Yearnshire - 35 assaults before reporting abuse.
- BCS estimated 6.6 million
assaults per year. Mainly
by men against women.
- UNDER-REPORTING -
Domestic violence =
violent crime least
likely to be reported.
- UNDER-RECORDING
- Police unwilling to
record, investigate
or prosecute DV
because reluctant
to become involved
in the 'private
sphere' of family -
individuals are free
to leave if unhappy.
- Cannot leave partners
- women and children
financially dependent.
- Cannot leave partners
- women and children
financially dependent.
- Too widespread to be behaviour
of 'a few disturbed individuals'.
- RADICAL
FEMINISM
- Men benefit from women's
unpaid domestic labour and
sexual services. DV = form of
control - so inevitable in
patriarchal society.
- Men dominate the state -
explains why police and courts
fail to take DV seriously.
- Dobash and Dobash - found violence
was triggered when husbands felt their
authority was being challenged. They
conclude that marriage legitimates
violence by giving power to men.
- Dobash and Dobash - found violence
was triggered when husbands felt their
authority was being challenged. They
conclude that marriage legitimates
violence by giving power to men.
- Elliot -
men do
not
necessarily
benefit
from DV.
- Men benefit from women's
unpaid domestic labour and
sexual services. DV = form of
control - so inevitable in
patriarchal society.
- Inequality -
Women not
the only
group at risk.
- Children and young
people, the poor
and lower classes,
and alcohol and
illegal drug users.
- Wilkinson - these patterns are result of stress
on the family caused by social inequality.
Families that lack resources suffer more
stress and this increases the risk of violence.
- Wilkinson does not explain why women are
the victims of violence rather than men.
- Wilkinson does not explain why women are
the victims of violence rather than men.
- Children and young
people, the poor
and lower classes,
and alcohol and
illegal drug users.
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