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domestic violence - Coggle Diagram
domestic violence
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physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence within intimate or family relation. forms pattern of coercive & controlling behaviour
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- Selbourne 1993 - largest category of murder victims is children under 5 at hands of family member
- 1989 survey - 1/7 women raped by husbands, 12% by bf/acquaintances & 2% by strangers
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- 1991 - rape in marriage illegal
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- 2007 - 29% women & 18% men aged 16-59 experienced one or more types of abuse at hands of current / former partner
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- DV accounts for almost a sixth of all violent crime
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- Mirlees-Black - most victims women w/ 99% incidents by men
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- interviewed women's refuges in Scotland & used police & court records to research DV
- found violent incidents set off by what husband saw as challenge to his authority
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- Yearnshire 1997 - women suffer 35 assaults before reporting
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- police may be reluctant to prosecute cases reported
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○ is a private sphere so access by state should be limited
○ family is a good thing so 'darker side' often neglected
○ indiv. are free agents - if woman wants to leave she is free to