Violence Against Women in Australia Assignment PDF
Added on 2021-01-01
8 Pages1987 Words69 Views
|
|
|
PORTFOLIO
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Women with disability and domestic and family violence....................................................1Violence against women in Australia.....................................................................................1Children exposed to violence against women........................................................................2The health consequences of violence.....................................................................................2Community attitudes towards violence .................................................................................3Responses to violence against women...................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION The chosen topic for portfolio is 'women’ who have been subject to family violence.Family violence is also known as domestic violence and is a form of abuse against a personwhich is very common in women these days. Violence against females is gender based, whichmeans that the abuse is committed against girls and women specifically because they arefemales. This assignment is based on women subjected to family violence which will coverinformation including arguments in broader literature from various articles. MAIN BODYWomen with disability and domestic and family violence.Nowadays, disability is understood by utilising the social model of disability, whichstates that disability is resulted from disabling environmental barriers. Santos, Oliveira andSilveira, (2018) stated that, there are about 4.2 million people with disability in Australia inwhich 52% are females. Then it was further added that, an estimation of 37.4% of women withdisability are more at risk of family violence than their peers. Moreover, Ellsberg, Arango andWatts, (2015) described violence against individuals with disability is termed as genderedphenomenon. Because of the combination of gender and disability based discrimination, femaleswith disability are vulnerable to violence. Below are some forms of violence against women withdisability are:Physical abuse; which includes withholding of food, medicines, water or other support facilitiesand misusing medication as a restraint (Violence against women in Australia. An overview ofresearch and approaches to primary prevention, 2017). Sexual violence; touching inappropriately while caring for them and demanding sexualactivities.Financial violence; include taking control over money or stealing it. Therefore, women withdisability face family violence in various settings, relationships and contexts. Violence against women in AustraliaAs per the views of Jewkes, Flood and Lang, (2015) violence against women is nowconsidered as a global issue of significant magnitude. This problem is often invisible butcommon form of abuse and an unsafe violation of human rights. It has been discovered that, two1
End of preview
Want to access all the pages? Upload your documents or become a member.
Related Documents
Criminal Law For Domestic Violencelg...
|9
|2229
|17
RESEARCH PROPOSAL On Domestic violencelg...
|12
|2941
|443
Exploring Domestic Violence Among Abused Women in Australialg...
|7
|1460
|249
Domestic violence Against Womenlg...
|13
|5072
|312
Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women in Australialg...
|9
|2085
|481
Domestic Violence in Community Developmentlg...
|7
|1343
|227