Domestic Violence

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Professor Eric Weaver

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS

[CRJ] 335

NINTH EDITION

Evelyn Kenon

15 APRIL 2012

ABSTRACT

This research paper will give clarity on domestic violence and the laws made to enforce them in America and abroad. It will show that domestic violence laws are put into effect to provide reasonable protection against domestic abuse toward all genders, age, nationality, and size. Also, this research paper will open the understanding to the appropriate moral standards to hold law enforcement and other members of the criminal justice to domestic violence. Women in Pakistan encounter multiple forms of violence, most endemic form being domestic violence, which remains a pervasive phenomenon.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE

Domestic violence may refer to the physical abuse of a spouse or intimate partner. The physical abuse can be physical restraint up to murder. Domestic abuse often occurs when a person in an intimate relationship or marriage tries to dominate and control the other person. Domestic violence is used to gain and maintain total control over someone. The abuser uses fear, guilt, intimidation and shame to keep one under their control. Other factors that influence aggression are to be found in sources related more to the individual and his behavioral conduct and reactivity. Some of them consist in: the type of personality, the hostile attributive tendencies, the sex differences, frustration the direct attack or provocation, the physical or moral pain, heat, agglomeration, alcohol and drugs, sex and pornographic materials (Atudorei, I). Domestic violence and abuse happens among the heterosexual couples and same-sex partners, it does not discriminate. Domestic violence and abuse happens among all age groups, economic levels, and ethnic backgrounds. Even though, we relate domestic violence and abuse with women, men are being abused. The men abuse is normally associated with verbal and emotional abuse but, at times, men are...