Influence of Policies, Theories, and Politics on Domestic Violence Victims' Health and Social Care

This assignment discusses the influence of current policies, theories, and politics on the health and social care of domestic violence victims. It explores the impact of domestic violence on mental and physical health, and examines the various policies, programs, and theories aimed at preventing and addressing domestic violence. The assignment also highlights the importance of equality and feminism in addressing domestic violence.

Select a key user group and discuss
how current policies, theories and
politics have influenced this group’s
health and social care.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discuss how current policies, theories and politics have influenced this group’s health and
social care....................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Domestic violence is define as the abuse and violence that occur through marriages and
cohabitation. This can be committed by opposite partner against his partner with in an intimate
relationship. It can also occur in same or opposite relationship (Ben-Porat, 2017). This would
occur against on children, adults and partners. It can occur in various form such as emotional,
verbal, sexual, economical and physical as each one has different forms of violence. The women
and children are more victims of domestic violence. In this assignment, theories, politics and
policies that are related to victims of domestic violence are covered.
MAIN BODY
Discuss how current policies, theories and politics have influenced this group’s health and social
care.
The domestic violence can happen from various ways such as in relationship, sexual,
religion and education level. Mainly, women and children are most exposed to domestic
violence. They receive violence by physical abuse and other forms. The domestic violence
develops various problems in body of children and women (Boughima and et. al., 2018). This
highly raise effect on mental and physical problem in them. There are some policies, politics and
theories that influence victims of domestic violence in health and social care.
Policies
There are various policies are occur by government in order to help and protect children
and women against their violence. They offered some rules which are to punish those who create
emotional and physical harm to victims. These current polices are described below.
 The each country has their own standards and procedures in dealing with domestic
violence on people. When a victims has a identify marks on their body then suspect are
suppose to be arrested and are punished according to their crime. This are often occur in
all jurisdiction of country in which they follow this guideline in a strict and serious
manner (Foshee and et. al., 2015).
 There are various domestic rules that provides strict to suspect as they cause emotional
and physical harm to women and children. These rules are also deals with civil protection
by providing safety and security to victims.
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 The safety is highly concern from physical abuses. So, the victims are permit to use civil
cure that are occurring to keep safe people. There are various types of protection occur in
order to prevent them such as restraining order. This order means to protect individual by
taking protective orders from court. They provide safety in domestic violence or assault
situation which that are accessible for victims. This protection law is occur without any
cost as victims can easily use this law.
 The federal domestic law has created a violence hotline against violence that are
occurring for women by implementing violence against law (Helmersson and Jönson,
2015). The modification in immigration laws and maintaining in confidentiality of
personal information f n individual. The various strategies are also occur in law which
provide care to them. In this, they are providing new protection to them. The training
development program are given to officers who are taking action against domestic
violence.
 The appropriate funds are given to local authorities so that enforcement of crime can be
consider by them. The increment in ratio of domestic violence are act by police. As they
implement mandatory and direct arrest from which the relationship domestic violence
cases can arrest shortly.
 The Violence against women act is planned to prevent individuals from violence which
are occurring in the country. This act according to gender based.
 The domestic violence is established to prevent women from domestic violence. In this
act all women can file against any family member who is assaulting her. Whether they
are from different religion or having different role in household, all are accessible to this
act. In this act, it is necessary to file by women only if her husband is culprit, no other
family can not file behind her. The marital rape, continuously harassment which could
lead to a number of mental and physical problems in the body of women. This also
includes restraining order which have aim to protect violence and abuse on women.
Politics
the country has designed various standards or act which develop penalties against crime
and protecting restraining order so that domestic violence can be prevented in the country. There
are various programs that are conduct by government in order to take action against crimes. It
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also includes acts that provide efficient resources from which they can take step against domestic
violence. The programs for preventing violence are described below.
 The implementation of primary, secondary and tertiary strategies which provide
protection against domestic violence. The primary strategy consist of strategy which
provide early prevention before crime can occur (Martin, 2016). The secondary
prevention centre on risk population while tertiary strategy focuses on prevention after
violence or crime has occurred.
 There are various program occur at young people by providing them information about
domestic violence in their education. This can help in changing attitudes by respecting
gender norms.
 There are some program which directly target the culprit. These includes psycho-
educational program and cognitive behavioural program (Pietri and Bonnet, 2017) . The
cognitive group focuses on to treat behaviour of individual such as sexual violate, etc.
they also teach victims to consider their pre existing violence. The psycho-educational
program refers to the responsibilities of culprit of their violence.
 The integration of intervention programs have main aim to provide services to victims
with help of various legal frameworks. They provide various benefits to them such as
services by governments, fostering collaboration, improvements, etc.
 the screening programs is conduct to identify the occurrence of violence. This test is
performed to measure potential cause of violence that are bot occurring openly. This
help in reducing the risk of domestic violence on women. It also detect early violence so
that it can treat in an appropriate manner.
 There are wide range of support programs are occur in order to prevent women and
children from violence. They provides safety by removing them from violent partner.
But there are various problems occur in this as they are not funded that arise problem in
service provision.
Theories
The theory refers to some principles in which activities are based. As domestic violence
can be occur in different manners such as between two inter related parties. This can be occur
through sexual, spiritual, physical and financial which cause number of effects on mental and
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physical health of well being. There are some theories which help people to reduce the impact
and understand aspect of domestic violence are covered below.
Family violence research
The behaviour of one individual can impact all other members in a family. This theory
focuses on interaction, communication between couple and between their families. The family
plays an important role in evaluating violent behaviour of an individual. There are lots of
conflicts arise in family such as misunderstandings, stress, high expectations, etc. This leads to
violence behaviour in family from which all family members are facing these violent. As these
factors develop aggressive, immaturity, jealousy and distrustful nature of a person (Reina and
Lohman, 2015).
Frustration aggression theory
This theory states that when person id likely towards his goal with passionately then they
are highly to perceive frustration which later turn in aggression. When this theory is applied on
partner then it is turned into violence which trigger aggression to opposite partner.
The Feminist theory-
This theory describe the importance of feminism that address fictional and theoretical
discussion. The main aim of this is to understand the important nature of equality of gender
across all country. It also defines the responsibilities of women and men by their interest,
experiences, chores in media styles, education. The main goal of this theory is to recognise
perceptive of women related to gender, class, sexual preferences and race. The domestic violence
occur from various factors such as dowry, sexual assault and rape. The main objective of this
theory is to remove discrimination of gender between men and women by maintaining equality
between them. This theory outline that presence of domestic violence is develop from
perspective of society in which male are treated as dominant on women.
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CONCLUSION
From the above assignment, it has been concluded that domestic violence are highly
increases in women and children. This develops various impact on mental and physical health of
their. In order to prevent them from domestic violence, there are some policies occur in local
authorities and police which help in reducing impact of domestic violence on them. There are
theories occur which develop an understanding about domestic violence. The government
implement various programs which support victims of domestic violence. From their programs,
they can develop understanding towards this issue to all individuals.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Ben-Porat, A., 2017. Patterns of service utilization among women who are victims of domestic
violence: The contribution of cultural background, characteristics of violence, and
psychological distress. Journal of interpersonal violence, p.0886260517707308.
Boughima, F.A., and et. al., 2018. The profile of women victims of domestic violence in
Morocco. La Revue de Médecine Légale. 9(3). pp.96-102.
Foshee, V.A., and et. al., 2015. The effects of moms and teens for safe dates: A dating abuse
prevention program for adolescents exposed to domestic violence. Journal of youth and
adolescence. 44(5). pp.995-1010.
Helmersson, S. and Jönson, H., 2015. The use of ‘empowerment’among organisations
supporting victims of domestic violence in Sweden. European Journal of Social Work.
18(1). pp.51-64.
Martin, L., 2016. Debates of difference: male victims of domestic violence and abuse. In
Domestic Violence (pp. 181-201). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Pietri, M. and Bonnet, A., 2017. Analysis of early representations and personality among victims
of domestic violence. European review of applied psychology. 67(4). pp.199-206.
Reina, A.S. and Lohman, B.J., 2015. Barriers preventing Latina immigrants from seeking
advocacy services for domestic violence victims: A qualitative analysis. Journal of
Family Violence. 30(4). pp.479-488.
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