Policy for Women's Protection Against Violence in the United States

Social Problem 1
Social Problem

Social Problem 2
Introduction:
This paper proposes the policy in context of the violence faced by women in United
States, and for these purpose different policy areas relevant for this social problem is discussed in
this file. It must be noted that, instead of active contribution of different authorities and NGOs in
the women’s protection, the numbers are still increasing with every passing day. It is necessary
to make necessary changes in the current policy for the purpose of providing adequate protection
to the women and girls against the violence. This policy must be extended to different areas such
as workplaces, schools, churches, etc.
Structure of this paper includes the brief introduction of the social problem, evaluation of
the policy development cycle and also the stakeholder’s impact on the process, use of the policy
development cycle and stakeholder’s impact in social change, role in the policy advocacy,
resources which are required to support the policy, identification of the steps for policy
implementation, list related to the different constituents required for advancing the policy goal,
particular policy action, criteria which measure the effectiveness of the policy.
Background of social Problem:
Violence against the women is considered as the any act related to the gender based
violence that resulted or might be resulted in the physical, sexual, or mental damage or suffering
to any women. This definition also includes the scope of the threat of such acts, coercion, and
arbitrary deprivation of liberty, and no matter whether all these things occurred in the public or
private life of the women. Violence also includes the intimate partner violence and sexual
violence:
 Intimate partner violence is the violence which includes the behavior of the intimate
partner or ex-partner that resulted in the physical, sexual or psychological damage, and
this also includes the physical violence, sexual coercion, mental abuse, and controlling
behaviors.
 Sexual violence is defined as the sexual act or attempt made by the person to commit any
sexual act, or any act which is directed against the sexuality of the person by using the
coercion or by any relationship with the victim (WHO, 2017).
As stated by the National Crime Victimization Survey, almost 232960 women’s in U.S.
were raped and sexually assault in the year 2006, and all these cases were not even reported to
the police. This survey further stated that almost 4.8 million women’s were raped by their
intimate partners each year (NOW, 2018).

Social Problem 3
Policy Development Cycle & Stakeholder’s Influence:
Policy development cycle includes the three stages that are leadership, direction, and
support, human resource capacity, and infrastructure support. Components related to these stages
are defined below (Manitoba, 2011):
Leadership, direction, and
support
Human Resource Capacity Infrastructure Support
Driving and sustaining policy Investment in people Right tool to perform the right
job
Entailment of process
management
Strengths of the human
resource
Infrastructure availability and
cost issues.
Necessary resources required
by staff
Risk related to the human
resources.
Risk related to the ineffective
leadership
Stakeholders Influence: Stakeholder is considered as the person who gain or lose
something from the result of the policy or project. They are also known as interest groups and
they directly influence the policy making process and also the result of the policy. There are two
types of stakeholders that are individual stakeholders and the stakeholder’s institutions.
Individual stakeholders are those people who are involved in the process of policy
making, and the stakeholder institutions are those institutions which represent the dominant to
the policymaking. Individual stakeholders are those who are either part of the government or
from the outside of the government (Bijlsma, Bots, Wolters & Hoekstra, 2011).
Individual stakeholders who belong from the public sector might include the politicians,
government, bureaucrats and technocrats from different areas such as health, education, finance,
local government, and it also includes the public sector staffs that are responsible for
implementing the programs. Stakeholders which represent the non-governmental institutes
include the person who represent the civil society organizations and support groups such as
women health advocacy groups, etc. All these groups directly or indirectly influence the policy
making in number of ways such as policy maker mainly consider the effect of the policy results
on all the stakeholders, and after that make changes accordingly (The policy circle, n.d.).
Those institutions which involved in the policy making process are directly connected
with the individual policy stakeholders. While making the policies, it is important to understand
the:
 Roles and responsibility of the different institutions.
 The manner in which approval related to the policy is taken from these parties.
 Which institutions are considered to submit the draft related to the policy?