Domestic violence Against Women
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Domestic violence Against Women
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3ASSESSMENT................................................................................................................................3A) Domestic violence towards women.......................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONViolence against women is also consider as gender based violence and such abuse isgenerally the violent actions which are primarily committed against a woman or a girl. In fact,sometimes, a woman face domestic violence because she is female and most of male dominantsociety exploits them by pressurizing them, enforcing to do things against their wishes,harassment and so on (Browne, 2016). Therefore, this assignment is going to highlight the factswhich help in showing the victimization of all the women. Along with this, it throws lights onthe extent vulnerability influences their experiences of criminal victimisation. Furthermore,response of criminal justice system is also outlined in the report with the help of variousawareness programmes of government and legal Acts which help in protecting the people whohave faced domestic and other related violence’s. Thus, main objective of this project is to clearall the facts or figures related with vulnerable situations a woman ever gone through. ASSESSMENT A) Domestic violence towards women Domestic violence means abuse faced by a person particularly, woman in an intimaterelationship. It can be of many types that can include sexual, physical or even emotional abuse.This term has two elements viz. “domestic” because it usually occurs in the homes and“violence” is the intention to hurt or damage or kill someone by physical or verbal force. Theword “abuse” is common for both males and females, but domestic violence or abuse is majorlyconnected with and focused on women. It can happen in both heterosexual and homosexualrelationships. It can also occur against children, parents or the elderly (Devries and et. al., 2013).The domestic violence can be in various forms such as verbal, physical, economic, religious,reproductive and sexual abuse. Further, female genital mutilation and throwing acid resulting inphysical damage or death are also a part of such abuse. In UK and many other parts of the world,it is considered a “severe criminal offence” but some countries like South Africa have the higheststatistics of gender-based violence in the world (Øverlien, 2010).The abusive relationships are the outcomes of imbalance power and control. In such ascenario, a person uses hurtful words, behaves in a way to control or intimidate his respectivepartner. These kinds of relationships should be identified before the situation turn unfortunate,also prompt actions against such violence should be taken before it gets too late. There are many3
features of an abusive relationship which forms a basis for judging whether the relationship isactually abusive or not. It has been observed that, many women during their pregnancy facedomestic violence and statistics of such cases in UK is 4.3% (Smart, 2013). Domestic abuse inpregnancy may affect the fetus or may have lasting effect on the health of the child after thebirth. Similarly, such violence against men cannot be left unnoticed and is a serious socialproblem (Johnson, 2016). Whenever we hear the word “domestic violence”, the first thing thatcomes to our mind is “woman”. But men have also been victims of this abuse. As discussedabove, that a child or even a family could also be a target of the abuser. A child growing up inabusive homes is expected to have similar behaviour and in some cases that behaviour could getmore aggressive, threatening or even bloodthirsty. Such children tend to believe that domesticviolence is a normal part of relationships (Connell, 2017).In the year 2017, the Office for National Statistics' research reported that over 10% of 16-19 year-old women are affected by such issue each year. About 400 people commit suicide eachyear who have been hospitalized for getting injured from domestic abuse. Further, it has beenestimated that the costs of such violence costs the public a whopping amount of £23billionperannum. The root cause of this crime is the discrimination and inequality by the society on thebasis of gender. It has been often seen that, a woman face discrimination not only at herworkplace but also in the society (Maynardand Purvis, 2013). This increases the domesticviolence cases as men feel they are superior to women. There could be many challenges that arefaced by women in domestic violence cases and this affects their mental health, physical, sexualand reproductive health. Furthermore, the over-all well being of the woman, her children andwhole family gets affected. Due to its negative impact on women's lives and on the overallsociety it is considered as a matter of concerned that needs to be addressed to reduce suchincidents (García-Moreno, and et. al., 2015). It is repetitive; life threatening and can destroy the lives of women and children. Awoman may choose to stay in a violent relationship because many reasons ranging from love toterror. Further, the other reasons could be, they may lose a place to live and become homeless,afraid to lose her children and others do not have the courage and confidence to move out of suchan abusive relationship. The extent of criminal victimisation is that, a men is physically morepowerful than a woman, so it becomes hard for a woman to reciprocate the actions when she getshit by her partner in domestic violence (Taillieuand Brownridge, 2010). Also, men do not have4
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