**VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMAN**
ABSTRACT:-
Violence against woman is a major social problem in the United States. Overall the bureau of justice statistics reports that woman to maintain about 3.8 million women have violence attacks and 500,000 rapes a year in 1992 and 1993. More than 75% of these violence acts were committed by someone known to the victim, and 29% of them well committed by an intimate a husband, ex-husband,boyfriend,or ex-boyfriend. The consequences of this violence against woman may be long-lasting and with a host of both short-and –long-term problems, including physical injury and illness, psychological (To play with the mind) symptoms, and in extreme cases, death. After reviewing the literature an battering
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For example, although much stricter laws on violence against women have been passed in Bangladesh, violence against women is still rising. Social violence that occurs in public places and usually between strangers and domestic violence that occurs in households and usually between relatives. Instead, it is thought that wide societal changes to address gender inequalities and women 's empowerment will be the way to reduce violence against women this similar typology from an academic journal article on violence against women shows similarly the different types of violence perpetrated against women according to what time period in a women 's life the violence takes place. They say men are the managers in every field and subconsciously women are being slaves. However, it also classifies the types of violence according to the perpetrator. One important point to note is that more of the types of violence inflicted on women are perpetrated by someone the woman knows, a family member or intimate partner, rather than a stranger. Sometimes if a woman takes a stand and tries to complain about their rape then the police also embarrass her by asking vulgar questions instead of giving justice to …show more content…
The rate of reporting, prosecution and convictions for rape varies considerably in different jurisdictions. Rape by strangers is usually less common than rape by persons the victim knows. Still, in many countries, spousal rape either remains legal, or is illegal but widely tolerated and accepted as a husband 's prerogative. The criminalization of marital rape is recent, having occurred during the past few decades. Violence against widows rise in India mostly, they are cursed for husband’s death. Women are humans too. They should get equal rights and respect as men. If the violence against women vanishes then women will be empowered and it will lead our country to be safe and developed. Males have reported incidences of assault against them which are intended to harm them take their life at many occasions. Traditional understanding and views of marriage, rape, sexuality, gender roles and self determination have started to be challenged in most Western countries during the 1960s and 1970s,as the common mentality of India to have at least one male child after marriage, in case if it’s not possible they are cursed and assaulted for having taken birth in the home, which has led to the subsequent criminalization of marital rape during the following decades. Battered woman have tendency to remain quiet, agonized and emotionally disturbed after the occurrence of
“Only women can put a stop to the “open season” on women by strangers”(The Writer’s Presence PG:813). The author Leslie Silko, believes a different life for women is just around the corner. “95,000 women are raped annually with roughly 1070 rapists being convicted” (Independent.co). With
Jackson Katz’s deficient diction portrays a fallacious idea that the majority of the victims of domestic violence are women with ideas that it’s a “men’s issue, and we are at fault” and “men are broken and need to be leaders, receive leadership training, and not sensitivity training.” Multiple empirical studies conclude that ¼ of all relationships have violence, and nonreciprocal violence in a relationship was more than 70%, initiated by females, and only less than 30%, initiated by male. People say that females are more affected as the statistics show that women get the brunt of the damage, but that 's because men are usually stronger and have the ability to inflict that much damage. From this, we can assume that the stereotype that women are
Domestic violence has attracted much attention of the sociologists in India since the decades of 1980s. Violence affects the lives of millions of women, worldwide, in all socio- economic and educational classes. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impending the right of women to participate fully in society. Domestic violence occurs in all cultures; people of all societies and classes. In earlier times, violence against women was a result of the prevalent atmosphere of ignorance and feudalism.
Victims of spousal abuse not only have an immediate exposure to physical danger, but many lasting mental effects as a response. For instance, many individuals suffering from abuse by an intimate partner experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by traumatic, uncontrollable thoughts about the incident. Additionally, depression remains as the most common symptom in victims. As much as 60% of abused women claimed they felt sad or depressed. In the same way, dissociation is commonly linked with spousal abuse.
There needs to be more of an understanding from the communities, friends, and family, of the effects of sexual violence. The victims need understanding and not ridicule. Rejection can lead to many other problems. Some of the community believes the women now have a sickness which is a fear that lingers inside the victim. Many husbands do not want to be intimate or even touch their wives after a rape occurs.
Universally, domestic violence is referred to abusive behavior that is used by the intimate partner to control or power over the other intimate power. This can be in the forms of psychological, sexual, economic or emotional threats or actions that will influence your partner (Kindschi,2013).Domestic violence studies provides that psychopathology, which happens when in violent environment in child development can make the argument of domestic violence progress of being a generational legacy (Kindschi,2013).I chose to write about the Feminist Theory to explain why people commit domestic violence. It believes that the root causes of domestic violence is the outcome of living in a society that condones aggressive behavior by men, while women
A collection of data from the US National Library of Medicine found while studying a total of 215,273 homicides, 77% of the homicide victims were men and only 23% female. Another report from the US Department of Justice saw that 89% of men will be the victim of at least one violent crime. Women get less jail time than men and women are not in as much danger as males, that is
Rape is an epidemic around the world and destroys millions of lives every year. Part of the reason so many women, men, and other genders are raped is because societies around the world, especially America, ignore the issue and do not help to resolve it. Girls in America are taught ways to protect themselves from rape, but as soon as they are actually raped it becomes a guessing game of “what did she do to get herself raped”, which can include what the girl was wearing, her intoxication level, and even if she was nice to the rapist beforehand. All of this happens on a daily basis while male rape victims are told that they were not even raped at all, and that they probably enjoyed it. Both female and male rape victims are continually swept under
This fact leads to the higher prevalence of mental health problems in women. It prevents them from normal, productive lives and activity in the community. Some of the most common diagnosis include PTSD, depression, anxiety, and Battered Woman Syndrome. Society today needs look at the nature of Battered Woman Syndrome, which not only should be looked at as a form of self-defense but also as a
Rape is one of the world’s most horrific crimes committed in the world today. One in every sixth women in the world has been raped, sexual assaulted, or have attempted in contact with sexual assault. Most rape cases involve between the ages of twelve and older. In a report, just in 2014, there have been approximately 35 percent cases of sexual battery within the United States. Almost half of these rape crimes have occurred just in the victim’s home themselves.
1. The unequal power between men and women is the basis of feminist criminology. Advocates of feminist criminology claim that the cause of female criminal behavior is due to the unequal amount of wealth, political, economic, and social power. Radical criminologists also support conflict theories, class, and power inequality as causes of crime. They point to research indicating that in the criminal justice system, the poor, minorities, and women are not treated equally.
This is something that concerns every girl and women around regions, nations, and countries. In Mexico, excessive murders, disappearance, and rape have been tremendous problems for ten years and still going (The Facts: Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women and Girls Around the World, Paragraph 5). In South Asia, dowry death murders thousands of women each year, and honor killings continue to rise drastically in many Mediterranean and Gulf countries (The Facts: Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women and Girls Around the World, Paragraph 8). Honor killings caused 500 women to die each year, 47% were raped then killed, and around 400 were beaten and/or tortured (The Facts: Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women and Girls Around the World, Paragraph 9-11). This is also reasons why physical and sexual abuse among females is increasing by the second all around the world.
Sexual assault is a basic termed used to cover a wide range of sexual crimes, including rape. Rape is considered the most traumatic of interpersonal crimes ever to be committed and that a victim can ever experience. This is why many of the victims who have experienced this type of victimization fail to report. While most rapes go unreported, the number of cases disclosed in the United States, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey was nearly 190,000; with a small amount of those being male victims of rape. The Uniform Crime Report in 2010 was approximately 56 females for every 100,000 persons.
Twenty-two to thirty-five percent of women who visit emergency rooms are there for injuries related to ongoing abuse. This statistic, printed on a table slip by Brown University 's Women 's Center last year, was shocking. This table slip turns out to be more disappointing than shocking because the statistic is completely misleading. The statistic comes from the 1984 article "Domestic Violence Victims in the Emergency Department" published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Morality -A Dead Initiative “Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape." -Kurt Cobain BACKGROUND: ‘Rape is a highly gendered violent behavior whereas the majority of the sexually violent perpetrators are men and the majority of their victims are women.