Janet Bakke's Transcending: Chapter Analysis

Imagine growing up in a community where you are more than likely to have lost friends and families to violence. Imagine living in a place where you are scared to walk to school or walk alone. This is what it is like for many people in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, especially black dominated neighborhoods. In such neighborhoods exist black-on-black crime and people have become too familiar with violence amongst each other. In analyzing black on black crime, it is important to try to understand what black on black crime is, what may be the causes of this type of crime, and solutions that can be implemented to eradicating this type of crime from society.

Domestic violence is the leading source of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States, more than car accidents, muggings, and rape combined. A woman is more likely to be assaulted, injured, raped, or killed by a male partner than by any other type of assailant. Although, in recent times men also are abused by their female partner, the majority of cases still affect women entirely. Domestic Violence is often referred to as a pattern of offensive behaviour in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes

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Domestic Violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain control and power over the other partner. Domestic violence can involve physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, or mental abuse. This is a growing issue in society today. In the United States, there are about 1.3 million women and 835,000 men that go through physical abuse each year. There is no direct cause of domestic violence, and it affects people of all ethnic groups and economic classes. There can be many factors such as substance abuse, stress due to unemployment, or growing up in an abusive household that result in domestic violence.

Inequality between genders and norms on tolerating violence against women are the root causes of violence against women in Canada (Violence against women, n.d.). Women in Canada are at a greater risk than men when it comes to domestic violence, sexual assault and sex trafficking (Gender-based violence, n.d.). Despite the various numbers of programs and rules that have been developed to counter the violence against women in Canada, studies have shown violence against women in Canada continues firmly and is one of the major problems in the society (Violent victimization of aboriginal women in the Canadian provinces, 2009). The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to

Family violence affects all and everyone. According to statisticians, about 6% of women in Canada in 2013 suffered from intimate violence in the past five years and “80% of intimate partner violence were against women and 97% of spousal murder-suicides were against women”. Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16. Family violence is not reported in majority of cases. As 2013 Statistics Canada reports, only about 24% of women – victims of abuse reported partner violence to the police (Statistics Canada 2013).

Intimate partner violence is considered the most life-threatening and distressing family issue on a societal platform (Hamilton, Jaffe, & Campbell, 2013). The term family is utilized loosely as familial depictions vary, but to be certain the family has two partners that can be diversified roles and gender. By definition intimate partner violence illustrates a pattern of behaviors that are deliberate and intended to gain power and control over another person (Hamilton, Jaffe, & Campbell, 2013). Intimate partner violence does not need to be necessarily violent actions, but can be verbal threats, isolation, neglect, and disempowering tactics. The series of behaviors and violence can hastily escalate and the probability of homicide increases in those relationship dynamics. Not only is the victim at risk of death, but there are direct correlations to child deaths during the admission of the parent homicide and/or as a form of retaliation. Frequently child welfare is involved in

For many centuries, women and men were not treated equally. After the Civil War, women had many essential successes that helped them earn respect. Women have tried very hard to get to the point where they can be treated with the same respect as men. As of today, women are still not equal to men. Women face violence, discrimination, and barriers in society.

Victims’ feeling of recovery is dependent on the degree of distress they experienced from the crime.

Chart 1 demonstrates that domestic homicides are actually only a relatively small percentage of the total homicides that occurred in New York during the target year, as only about 20% of the 2014 homicides were domestic in nature (Fernandez-Lanier, 2015). Of the domestic homicides, there was a relatively equal split between intimate relation homicides and familial homicides (Fernandez-Lanier, 2015). Additionally, Chart 1 shows that only about 10.6% of New York’s 2014 homicides were actually the result of intimate partner violence, making this type of violence seem like a relatively minor contributor to the homicide rate (Fernandez-Lanier, 2015). Chart 1 is not inaccurate or even necessarily misleading, but by itself it presents a picture of the justice system that lacks nuance and depth, because it does not demonstrate the disproportionate number of women who are negatively impacted by intimate partner violence (Fernandez-Lanier,

Domestic violence is a crime that is faced in not only America but other countries across the globe. The overall purpose of this study is to show the impact domestic violence will not only have on the American society but also in other countries, I choose to look at the countries of Canada, Australia, England and Saudi Arabia The first pages of the essay illustrate the problems which have been faced in America because of the high increase in domestic violence rates. As portrayed in the essay, there are several problems which will be similar to the ones which encountered in the different countries that will be mentioned in the essay. The problems around the

Intimate partner violence occurs when either verbal, physical, or sexual violence is used by one or both partners in a relationship, such as dating, co-habitation, engaged, or married. The methodology used to obtain information about intimate partner violence is important because of how prevalent is in society, so obtaining accurate information is key to reducing it. This paper methodologically analyzes how cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis are used to better understand intimate partner violence.

Start counting to the number nine……… In that time a woman was assaulted or beaten in the United States alone according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. That means every minute approximately seven people are a victim of abuse, every hour 402 people, and every day 9,648. These numbers are astonishing and bring to light the tangibility of this issue. Domestic violence exists, it is a serious and an important issue I believe should be brought to the table of conversation. Domestic violence can rip family’s apart, cause people to loose trust in one another, as well as bring victims to their lowest points of self-worth. The abuse can be issued from multiple persons in the family: father to child, mother to child, teenage child

were no data regarding the perpetration of intimate partner violence during adolescence which could lead to an overestimation of the correlation between victimization in adolescence and perpetration in adulthood. The final limitation is the study did not examine the within-person changes in intimate partner violence from one wave to the next.

The reality of social work is that of a job that handles familial strife and complications in a very difficult and demanding career. I interviewed Freddy L. Wilson an educated individual who has a bachelors’ in sociology from Fisk University and Masters’ in social work from Howard University and has years of career experience dealing with abuse. In his long career, he has worked in probation, children services, hospice, and as a medical social worker. In my interview with Mr. Wilson, he chose to specifically talk to me about his 9 years working at the San Bernardino County family reunification. Through our conversation, I gained knowledge on the way that the government handle both victims and perpetrators of child abuse. My interviewee has