Domestic Violence: Analysis and Human Rights

Master of Social Work

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Describing and defining the issue................................................................................................1
Identifying the key features and characteristics for the issue......................................................3
The way in which human needs defined and argued within this issue........................................3
Human rights that are considered relevant to this particular issue..............................................5
Relevant Australian and international laws with the issue..........................................................6
The way in which the selected issue is perceived........................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Social work is a profession which is concerned with the community in order to ensure that
no basic human right of any individual is being suppressed (Chappell and Curtin, 2013). The
main aim of this essay is to consider a social issue in Australia and then analyse it. For the
purpose, the social issue which is selected to focus upon is Domestic Violence. Considering this
issue as a base, in this essay a detailed analysis will be made. The key features and
characteristics of this issue will be explained along with the analysis that can state the ways in
which human needs argued the issue of domestic violence.
Further in this essay, relevant human rights and legislations are discussed which are
developed to control the practice of domestic violence in the region of Australia. Lastly, the
analysis of the selected issue has been made in order to identify the way in domestic violence is
being perceived.
MAIN BODY
Describing and defining the issue
Domestic violence is wide term which is not used for physical violence only. The domestic
violence is any behaviour which has the purpose to gain the power over partner, child, spouse
and family member (Fisher, 2013). It is considered that if a person domestically abuses family
members or partners under the influence of alcohol, drugs, mental problems then also the case
will be considered as domestic violence because the behaviour of violence is considered to be a
learned behaviour and not a caused behaviour due to anger of influence of above material.
The problem of domestic violence is the major issue which Australia is facing as it
suppresses the human rights of victims (Ghafournia, 2011). As mentioned earlier, only physical
abuse is not considered as domestic abuse as there are various types of abuse which are included
in this category. These types of abuses include physical, sexual, emotional, psychological abuses.
Threats and stalking is also considered as a domestic violence and this list has even extended by
recently included cyber stalking and bullying. Abusing any person is a type of violence but
domestic violence only includes certain people as victims. The numbers of people which can be
considered as victims under domestic violence are spouses, family members, children,
cohabitants and sexual or dating partners.
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