RESEARCH PROPOSAL On Domestic violence

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Research Proposal
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Introduction
The domestic violence is such pattern of the behavior in any type of relationship which is
used for gaining or maintaining power and control over and intimate partner. Notably abuse can
be sexual, physical, economic, emotional or psychological threats which can impact on another
person. This consists of any type of behavior which can intimidate, frighten, manipulate, blame
humiliate, hurt or injure someone. The domestic violence can occur to any person of any age,
race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. It can also happen to couples who have been married
with each other, dating together and living together1. The domestic violence leaves impact on
people of all of the social, economic background or educational backgrounds. The domestic
violence management essentially needs the combined effort of the social welfare, the law
enforcement along with the health care services. The aim of the paper is to call attention to the
intimate partner violence prevalence in Jamaica for suggesting some approaches to address and
ultimately eliminate the problem. Significantly in Jamaica, there is iteration of the cultural
acceptance of the intimate partner violence which makes it an extremely contentious issue. There
have been recent discourse among public regarding the effects of domestic violence such as
intimate partner violence on the society of Jamaica which has paved way for enhanced civic
interest in the issue and at the same time has few critics to charge against the successive
governments that have not yet addressed it enough. As per some of the sources, it is found that
Jamaica is lagging behind many of the countries in terms of taking proper action against
domestic violence and violence against women. It is further argued that lack of proper
responsiveness on the state’ part is a huge cause of the consistent abuse on vulnerable women.
1 Roberts, N. and Price, D., 2019. Gendered Perceptions of Domestic Violence: How young
females are more likely than young males to know controlling domestic violence behaviours

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Research Aim
The aim of the research is to explore what is the best way to prevent domestic violence
The research objective
 To explore the types of domestic violence and the impact of each type
 To elaborate what are the factor which induce condition for involving in violence
 To highlight what are the measures which should be taken for preventing domestic
violence
The Literature review
The domestic violence is actually the spousal abuse, a domestic abuse, family violence
battering and IPV or the intimate partner violence which is defined in the form of pattern of the
abusive behavior through one partner against the other relationship as dating, marriage,
cohabitation, family and the like. The alcohol consumption and the mental illness can definitely
become associated with abuse and it can present some additional challenges regarding
elimination of the domestic violence2. The awareness and the documentation of domestic
violence, the perception the people widely from one country to another have evolved from one
array to another. The domestic violence and abuse is not keen to be limited to some obvious
physical violence. It can also mean the criminal coercion, the endangerment, the imprisonment,
kidnapping, stalking, harassment, trespassing and others.
The types of domestic violence
2 Alijani, F., Khosravi, A., Mousavi, M.S. and Delarosa, V., 2019. The associated factors of
Domestic Violence against Infertile Women. Journal of Research Development in Nursing &
Midwifery, 16(2), pp.61-70.

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There are different forms of domestic abuse but the purpose is one that is to maintain
having gained the control over the victim. Usually the users make use of tactics for exerting
power over the partner or spouse as isolation, the humiliation, instrumentation and blame. The
physical abuse is a type of abuse which consists of contact with the aim of delivering the feeling
of pain, intimidation, physical suffering and others. It includes the slapping, hitting, jerking,
punching, burning, cutting and other types which can come out in the physical injury of the
victim forced to engage in alcohol intake against will. The sexual abuse or the marital rape is
common types of domestic violence which consist of threatening the partner or forcing him or
her in participating in sexual activity against will3. The person who is forced for engaging in the
sexual activity against will is an act of violence and aggression. The emotional abuse on the
other hand is also called the psychological abuse which can consist of the humiliation of the
victim publicly or privately having controlled what the victim can and cannot do after
withholding the information from the them and many others. The degradation in any form can
also be considered as a psychological abuse and it also can include the verbal abuse the
undermining of the self worth the self esteem of a person through language and through
threatening a person blatantly.
The impact of domestic violence
There are many types of impacts such as the physical, psychological and the economic.
As far as the physical impacts are concerned, there are broken bones, breezes, internal bleeding,
head injuries and few other acute effects that require the medical supervision along with
hospitalization. There are also some chronic health conditions which have become linked to the
3 Edwards, K. M., Neal, A. M., & Rodenhizer-Stämpfli, K. A. (2017). Domestic violence
prevention. In Preventing crime and violence (pp. 215-227). Springer, Cham.