Social Behavioural Analysis: Domestic Violence Prevention and Response

This assignment delves into the multifaceted issue of domestic violence, providing a comprehensive overview of its definition, types, and underlying causes. It explores the prevalence of domestic violence, comparing statistics from India and Australia, highlighting the various forms of abuse, including physical, sexual, psychological, and economic. The assignment examines factors such as stress, anger, jealousy, depression, financial tensions, and insults as triggers for domestic violence. Furthermore, it offers a range of prevention and response strategies, including advocacy, counselling, home visit programs, economic and social empowerment of women, microfinance initiatives, and legislative reforms to promote gender equality. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of addressing domestic violence through a multi-pronged approach that considers both individual and societal factors.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PREVENTION
ADND RESPONSES

Definition and Types of Domestic violence
• Violence of one person on the other in a domestic setting.
• Mainly in the relationship of spouses
• Use of coercion and fear
• Include violence against children, parents and elderly
• Includes physical, verbal, emotional, economic, religious, reproductive
and sexual abuses
• Coercive forms such as marital rape, burnt cases and throwing of acid

Causes of Domestic Violence
• Stress
• Anger
• Jealousy
• Depression
• Financial tensions
• Getting insulted by the partner (Berns, 2017).

Rate of Domestic Violence in India
• 22% physical abuse
• 17% sexual abuse
• 59% psychological abuse
• 59.5% others forms (Kimuna et al., 2013)

Rate of Domestic Violence in Australia
• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men have an experience of violence
• 1 in 6 women have an experience of violence by the live-in partner at
15 years of age
• 1 women in a week and 1 man in a month are killed
• 1 in 16 men have an experience of physical and sexual violence by the
live in partner at 15 years of age (Costa et al., 2015)

World’s Statistics of Domestic Violence

Prevention and Response to Domestic
Violence
• Advocacy and counselling
• Programmes including home visits
• Economic and social empowerment of women
• Providing microfinances to the women
• Amendment of legislation and implementation of policies that include
gender equality

Conclusion
• Abuse of a person or partner in marriage by another
• Include violence against children, parents and other elderlies as well
• Includes various coercive and dangerous forms such as marital rape
and acid attack.
• High rate in both the countries of India and Australia.
• Causes dues to depression, lack of finance and insult by the partners.
• Mitigation and elimination can be done through counselling,
empowering women both socially and economically.

References
• Berns, N. S. (2017). Framing the victim: Domestic violence, media, and social problems.
Routledge.
• Costa, B. M., Kaestle, C. E., Walker, A., Curtis, A., Day, A., Toumbourou, J. W., & Miller, P.
(2015). Longitudinal predictors of domestic violence perpetration and victimization: A systematic
review. Aggression and violent behavior, 24, 261-272
• Johnson, M. P. (2016). Confl ict and Control: Symmetry and Asymmetry in Domestic Violence.
In Couples in conflict (pp. 125-134). Routledge.
• Kimuna, S. R., Djamba, Y. K., Ciciurkaite, G., & Cherukuri, S. (2013). Domestic violence in India:
Insights from the 2005-2006 national family health survey. Journal of Interpersonal
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• Torkashwand, F., Rezaeean, M., Sheikhfathollahi, M., Mehrabian, M., Bidaki, R., Garousi, B., &
Movahedi, M. (2013). The Prevalence of the types of domestic violence on women referred to
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