domestic violence
(noun)
Violence against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
Examples of domestic violence in the following topics:
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Spousal Abuse
- The relationship between gender and domestic violence is a controversial topic.
- Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
- Determining how many instances of domestic violence actually involve male victims is difficult.
- Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.
- Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.
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Family Violence
- 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
- 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
- These are known as the psychological effects of domestic violence.
- These are the financial effects of domestic violence.
- Discuss the various types of domestic violence, such as physical or economic, as well as the effects on all people involved
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Factors Associated with Divorce
- Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
- While not conclusive, the predominate factors that lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions such as alcoholism and gambling.
- Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
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Violence in Schools
- School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
- This refers to violence between students as well as physical attacks by students on school staff.
- In part, violence receives more attention because it draws media coverage.
- A home environment may contribute to school violence if, at home, students are exposed to gun violence, parental alcoholism, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or harsh parental discipline.
- Recall the risk factors for school violence in the U:S. and the two types of bullying
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Gender and Social Movements
- The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence.
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Global Crime
- In order to achieve their goals, these criminal groups utilize systematic violence and corruption.
- Transnational organized crimes result in interrupting peace and stability of nations worldwide, often using bribery, violence or terror to meet their needs.
- These include the creation of domestic criminal offences to combat the problem, and the adoption of new, sweeping frameworks for mutual legal assistance, extradition, law-enforcement cooperation and technical assistance and training.
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Sexual Violence
- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- The most commonly discussed form of sexual violence is rape.
- Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health.
- Sexual violence is severly under reported.
- This graphic illustrates the magnitude of the underreporting of sexual violence
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Formal Means of Control
- By the "monopoly on violence," Weber means the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
- Our understanding of formal control is enhanced by social theorist Max Weber's work on the state's use of violence.
- Weber writes of the definitional relationship between the state and violence in the early twentieth century in his essay "Politics as Vocation. " Weber concludes that the state is that which has a monopoloy on violence.
- By this, Weber means that the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
- The formal means of social control and the monopoly on violence serve a similar role in defining the state—they both illustrate the unique relationship between the state and its subjects.
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Peace
- Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
- rejection of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals
- opposition to violence under any circumstance, including defense of self and others
- Principled pacifism holds that at some point along the spectrum from war to interpersonal physical violence, such violence becomes morally wrong.
- Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and inter-personal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving disputes must be found.
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Authority and Legitimate Violence
- Max Weber's theory about states and violence can help explain why states would want to enact policies like gun control.
- In order to maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence, states must limit the means by which others may carry out violent acts.
- The right of self-defense is the right by which civilians acting on their own behalf may engage in violence for the sake of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including the use of deadly force.
- The right of self-defense is a private form of legitimate violence that is recognized by the state.
- States may maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence but outsource its execution by contracting with private parties such as Blackwater.