favourably with their male counterparts in the society. When the women become as educated as their male counterparts, it makes it easier for a symbiotic relationship to exist between the sexes. Baram Alkali demonstrates through the character of Basheika problems encountered by the woman in the predominantly Muslim Northern Nigerian society about making a choice between her family and trying to earn a living outside the husband’s income. Basheika, a university graduate faces a stiff opposition from her husband when she attempts to establish a supermarket so as to enjoy some level of financial freedom. She damns the consequences and goes ahead to establish the supermarket with the assistance of Hajia Leila a typical example of a radical feminist …show more content…
Abdullahi argues that violence against women manifest in a variety of ways and may often times be culture specific. This may take physical violence, emotional violence, economic violence sexual violence or psychological violence. He further explains that physical violence may affect either the person’s possessions or the person himself or herself. It could manifest through such behavior as pushing, hitting, shoving, slapping, chocking, punching; on the other hand, a person could surfer physical violence through the loss of their prized possessions as they get destroyed by some other persons. Emotional violence is experienced when a person’s confidence is undermined. The person in question is deliberately humiliated, demeaned and threatened with harm. Economic violence results when a financially dependent partner is denied access to money by his or her spouse. In the case of women, they can get ensnared in a violent relationship because of the lack of basic human needs. Sexual violence includes violent behavior like forced sexual contact, rape, forcing a victim to have sex with others which may cause injury to the person’s sex organ. Psychological violence which is sometimes related to emotional violence but in this particular case the objective is to cause fear and disorientation in other to gain control. It is associated with three subclasses – intimidation, harassment and threats. Methuselah further explains that elsewhere; it is argued that violence against women occurs in three levels: the home, the community and the state. In the home, a woman may surfer violence through battering, by her spouse; in the community she is exposed to violence through rape, sexual assault and the commercialization of the female body, while the state subjects her to violence through discriminating policies which affects her. He noted that bad governance could
Violent crime refers to criminal acts that involve the use or threat of physical force against another person. It encompasses a wide range of offences where violence is employed, causing harm, injury, or the risk of injury to the victim. Violent crimes are typically characterised by their direct and immediate physical impact on individuals, as opposed to crimes that involve property damage or financial loss. Examples of violent crimes include assault, robbery, murder, rape or sexual assault, domestic violence, kidnapping, manslaughter and hate crimes. These offences can vary in severity and may involve different degrees of harm, intent, or premeditation.
Some cultural issues can be explained differently in other cultures. For example, parenting includes some types of physical punishment in some cultures. Emotional or psychological maltreatment that attack or neglect the genuine psychological or emotional needs. Sexual abuse is the inappropriate use of another including sexual contact for the purpose of sexual gratification, domination, or both. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior that one person establishes power and control over another person among people have a personal relationship.
Today violence against women is an uncontrollable phenomenon, which is a direct result of the rapid urbanization, industrialization and structural adjustment programs which are changing the socio-economic scenario of our country. "Violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women" (United Nations Declaration1993) 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, threatening the right of women to participate fully in society.
Throughout history, violence has played a major role in our society and has been consistent in every generation. Constantly, we are hearing about violence through the media and for some people, we are witnessing the violence firsthand. Violence can be defined as the intentional use of physical force or power, vulnerable or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a community. Violence can end up in or incorporates a high chance leading to injury, death, psychological trauma, and deprivation. There are many different reasons people commit violent acts, an example of this can be self defense or anger.
Violence is the use of physical force to damage people or property, it is able to cause physical suffering to people we love and those who experience it directly, as well as emotional sorrow to such individuals, families, and even at workplaces like school, communities or society, all are harmed by violence. The Tough Guise two, explains that violence is a social and health problem that often occurred by men which proceeds in many forms of power and strength. For example, some depressing violent that committed by men are family violence, which often stated as domestic abuse or child mistreatment. All these things begin with the abuse of power or powerful than the abuser such as the act of sexual violence, which includes rape. Community violence,
Throughout the world, violence has occurred in some form in each individual’s life since the beginning of time. Violence is any action, inaction, or structural arrangement that results in physical or nonphysical harm to one or more animals. There are three types of violence to classify the act, which is Institutional, Interpersonal, and Structural. Within each type of violence are specific categories that occur, such as family, religion, educational, corporate, and even economical violence.
To better understand the cause of intimate violence will help to come up will help come up with a better solution on solving this problem. There are various theories that have come up to explain the main causes of domestic violence, some include; learned helplessness theory, Intergenerational Transmission Theory, Social–Psychological Model and the feminist theory. All of these theories have tried to illustrate the causes of domestic violence. In this paper, I will target my writing on the feminist theory where it emphasizes power and gender inequalities in relationships. The theory focuses on how societal messages that makes it alright for a male to use aggression and violence, and the gender roles that dictate how women and men should act in their relationships
According to the World Health Organization, violence in healthcare settings can be physical or psychological. Physical violence is the use of physical force such as kicking, slapping, beating, shooting, punching, biting, against any other person or group, which causes harm to the victim. On the other hand, psychological violence is verbal abuse, that is; hounding, harassment, threatening against another person or group. To sum it up, violence, in whatever form, results in the harm of the mental, physical, spiritual, moral, and social development of the victim. (World Health Organization
Many women are experiencing controlling and violent environment which should be about intimacy, love and care. In relation to this social justice issue, domestic violence all these theories can be applied effectively to assist in a practitioner’s work. Psychodynamic is a micro leveled practice involving more individualized work investigating the user’s unconscious behaviors and mental processors. Systems theory focuses on keeping a balanced equilibrium with marriage counselling and other forms of community assistance to help the user adapt to their environment. The critical perspective, feminist theory, works alongside the user in order to help identify social injustices and assists to empower and educate them.
It involves coercion, mental abuse and emotional blackmail, and intense social pressure. In the most extreme cases, it may also involve physical violence, abduction, false imprisonment, rape or sexual abuse, and murder.’ (Hossain & Turner, 2000)
It can happen in a complicated and organized manner, referred to as organized crime, often related to drugs, kidnappings and arms trafficking. Economic violence tends to take any of the following main forms: Street theft, robbery and crime; Armed robbery; Kidnapping; Drug-trafficking; Dealing in small-arms; Killing and rape committed in the course of an economic crime type of assault; Human trafficking for prostitution; Conflict over scarce resources; The use of violence or intimidation to resolve economic disputes; Territorial or identity-based “turf” violence; robbery, theft, Petty theft. Economic violence is often also referred to as “street violence”, as it is most commonly perpetrated on the streets by gangs or children (both boys and girls), delinquents and robbers. - (TABLE 1) Social violence can be understood as any of the following: Child abuse suffered by both girls and boys; Conflict between parents and children, known as Inter-generational conflict; The physical or psychological male-female abuse; Arguments getting out of control and resulting in violence; Incivility in traffic, road rage, street confrontations or bar fights; Gratuitous/routine daily violence; and of course Sexual violence (including rape) in the public arena and the physical and sexual abuse mostly perpetrated by stepfathers but also by uncles.
In most circumstances, the person affected due to violence is aware that a violent action has been performed on them. However, there is another form of violence where the affected individual, in most cases are unaware of the violence imposed upon them. These types of violence are termed as structural violence. The
Domestic Violence Problem Migdalia Villanueva Kaplan University CJ-333 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.
Health promotion is the process of allowing people to increase control over their health and improve it. Health promotion aims to ensure equity, improve health in life transitions, to prevent and control diseases and accidents, develop strategies to improve oral health, to guide the health sector towards health outcomes and to establish polices and mechanisms in order to manage change. The World Health Organization, known as ‘WHO’ is an organization whose objective is to focus on worldwide health. WHO aims special attention at the fight against poor sanitation, especially in undeveloped countries. Among their priorities they also want to improve the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and also reducing infant
Physical violence Physical violence occurs when someone uses a part of their body or an object to control a persons action. Physical violence includes, Using physical force which results in pain, discomfort or injury, hitting, pinching, hair-pulling, arm-twisting, strangling, burning, stabbing, punching, pushing, slapping, beating, shoving, kicking, choking, biting, force-feeding, or any other rough treatment, assault with a weapon or other object, threats with a weapon or object, deliberate exposure to severe weather or inappropriate room temperatures and murder. 2. Sexual violence Sexual violence occurs when a person is forced to unwillingly take part in sexual activity.