...DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN WEBUYE COUNTY- WESTERN KENYA A RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF A DIPLOMA COURSE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ………. A STUDY CONDUCTED BY MR. SHDRACK MOMANYI OCHENGO PRESENTED TO PROF. …….. DATE OF SUBMISSION AUGUST 3, 2012 Table of Contents Chapter One (Introduction) 4 1.1 Background Information 4 1.2 Justification of the Study 6 2.0 Chapter 2: Literature Review 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Factors related to Domestic Violence 9 2. 3 Remedy to Domestic Violence. 11 2.4 Challenges in Resolving Domestic Violence 15 2.5 The Legal Framework 15 3.0 Chapter 3: Methodology 17 3.1 Introduction 17 3.2 Sample Design, Sampling Procedure and Data Collection. 17 3.3 Data Source and Data Collection Methods 18 3.4 Choice and Limitations of the Research Methods 19 3.5 Data Analysis and Ethical Issues 20 3.6 Problems, Constraints and Limitations of the Study 21 4.0 Chapter 4: Discussion of the Findings 22 4.1 Causes of Domestic Violence 22 4.2 Consequences of domestic violence 25 5.0 Chapter 5: Conclusions and Recommendations 29 5.1 Conclusion 29 5.2 Recommendations 31 Chapter 6: References 32 Appendices 34 6.1 Appendix One (Questionnaire and Interview Guide) 34 Chapter One (Introduction) 1.1 Background Information Since the beginning of the 20th...
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...Strategies for focusing a broad research topic Are you overwhelmed with how much information you are finding? Try the suggestions below: * Develop a tentative focus List what you already know and questions you have about the topic and focus on those you find most interesting. * Find background information on your topic Check our Electronic Reference Collection for an article in an online encyclopedia you can trust. * Look for magazine articles Magazine articles tend to be shorter and can provide a general idea of key issues or controversies related to your topic. Try: * Academic Search Complete * Academic OneFile * Search CQ Researcher This is a great source for finding background information and overviews of a wide array of topics. * Choose a particular perspective on the issue How do scholars from different subject fields approach your topic? Finding different points of view can provide you with a better sense of direction. Look through our subject-specific databases listed on the Find Articlespage like: * Education Full Text (EBSCO) * Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest) * PubMed (National Library of Medicine) * Limit your search to a specific time period Look for date limit options when searching a database. * Need more help? Ask a Librarian for assistance. Finding research topic ideas You'll be spending a bit of time on your research paper, so be sure to choose a...
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...Relationship Abuse By Abby Everett Relationship abuse is a growing and very dangerous epidemic that needs to be stopped because of the mental health damage it is causing to a large number of women and even a small amount of men across the country and around the globe. Although women are the ones victimized 90% of the time, abuse can also happen to men. Relationship abuse can occur in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Abuse most commonly starts at the high school age when relationships get more serious and emotions are deeper which cause higher chance for abuse. More than 1.5 million women nationwide seek medical treatment for injuries related to abuse each year (enddomesticabuse.com). One out of every three women will be assaulted by an intimate partner during her lifetime, and 60 to 70% of men who abuse their partners also batter their children (enddomesticabuse.com). Victims of domestic abuse or domestic violence may be men or women, although women are most commonly victimized. This abuse happens among heterosexual couples and in same-sex partnerships. Except for the gender difference, domestic abuse doesn't discriminate. It happens within all age ranges, ethnic backgrounds, and financial levels. The abuse may occur during a relationship, while the couple is breaking up, or after the relationship has ended. Despite what many people believe, domestic violence is not due to the abuser's loss of control over his behavior. In fact, violence is a deliberate...
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...Human Rights Watch is one of the most reputable None Government Organizations which dedicated to protect human rights. It is independent and does not accept donations from any governments. The organization was founded in 1981, its mission is to defend the rights of people worldwide. It opposes the violations of what it considers basic human rights, including capital punishment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Human Rights Watch advocates freedoms in connection with fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press. It conducts the investigations, interviews the victims, witnesses, and sometime even the perpetrators in order to document the facts, gather the evidences to exposes the perpetrators that...
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...in the early 1900's. By age fourteen she has been pregnant by her father twice. Both of children were both taken away from, after having the second baby her father took the baby away from her arm and warned her not to tell anybody. Since she lost her mother the only person closer to her is her younger sister Nettie. Their close relationship is torn when Celie she was forced to marry a local farmer, "Mister" (Albert Johnson) a widower with four...
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...With the increase of business globalization, management are finding themselves in international environments that have ethical challenges. When managing ethical conduct in their own culture is difficult, imagine how difficult it would be to manage a culture when a different language and culture, management will be under a great deal of stress and stakeholders will enormously increase. The key stakeholders will include several governments with different regulations, policies and laws; their business partners incorporated elsewhere or in the United States; having customers and employees from different cultures, and a different civil society such as, the media, non-profit organizations, religious, political and academic institutions interested in global business ethics. In business globalization, management has to deal with many different stakeholders that will make a global business ethics exceedingly difficult. The issues that global management faces is money laundering, corruption, workplace conditions, human rights and respect for the local cultures and customs. Mostly in developing countries, ethical difficulties that management faces may conflict with their own ethical values, even though multinational organizations who have years of experience in doing business international, sometimes will give management policies and training to guide their action, and many of American business representatives are left to fend for themselves with little or no guidance (Trevino, 2006). ...
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...1998 (HRA) for the Convention and the all the individuals living in the United Kingdom had no domestic law.This resulted them to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in order for them to correct the breach of their Convention rights. Thus the domestic law needs to respect the settlement that has been made by the European Court. Surprisingly, the relationship between the Human Right issues and within Tort Liabilities, there is no exact proof that the domestic court has carried out these issues. In the case Reynolds v Times Newspaper Ltd [1999], the plaintiff, a well known public figure in Ireland, began for deformation against the Defendant. This was surrounded with the issue regarding an article being published by the Sunday Times. The article was based on Mr Reynolds that he had hidden important information about his colleague, Mr Whelenhan’s in order for him to become president of the High Court. The main issue that needs to be considered in this case, is whether the courts should identify if it is countable of holding the announcement by a newspaper of political matters. The House of Lords identified that the media’s announcement can be safe by these situation, providing a test of public right. This considers the freedom of expression under the Article 10. In 2002, the Human Rights Act came into action which helped developed the Convention rights into to the domestic law. There purposes is to combine human rights into the important works within the United Kingdom...
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...research work was carried out to examine the consequences of domestic violence on the performance of school children. The research methodology utilizes descriptive statistics with simple numbers and percentages in the analysis and synthesizing of primary sources of data collected via questionnaire, as well as diverse literature on the area of study. However, the findings revealed that commitment by parents; caregivers and teachers in carrying out their responsibilities seem to be on the decline. The study further exposes some inherent challenges and abuses faced by learners in unsuitable living conditions. The implications of such situations are that learning institution should ascertain possible ways of liberating the affected learner and educate the parents, caregivers and teachers on the negative effects of perpetuating domestic violence. It is therefore, recommended that, Government should establish and fund counselling centres at the community, and Local Government levels and employ professional counsellors to help victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 Background of the Study Domestic violence is assuming national and international attention (Amnesty International 1995). It is a type of violence that is prevalent in many homes, and the World over. It is a form of violence that occurs in the form of defilement, assault, sexual harassment, and rape or battering, child abuse, for example denial of right, necessities and opportunities...
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...Against Domestic Violence Koel Chowdhury Chamberlain College of Nursing Domestic Violence You think you love him, and you also think he loves you too. However, you always end up arguing about every little thing and his words soon turn into abuse. He says it will never happen again, he will never again hurt you. Then brings you a gift that makes you change your mind and perhaps makes you think he will change and give him another chance. Things seem to get better for a bit till he gets angry again and another fight breaks out over what? You cannot even recall why it started. One thing leads to the next, and once again things get out of hand. You live a life of fear all day, all night. Is there really nothing more to life? Do you deserve to get beaten for what you think, what you do? Your life does not need to be this way, he doesn’t love you if he did he would respect you and treat you well without abuse and tears. Nobody deserves such pain, and if one faces this they should just get up, leave, and never turn back. Domestic violence is any type of abuse which includes physical contact, mental, emotional and sexual in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence happens in all types of cultures, race, education level, and socioeconomic status. To a certain extent it exists in every society, community and social class all over the world, throughout history. Domestic violence can sometimes be viewed as a power hungry issue where one has the need to feel more dominant over the other...
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...research work was carried out to examine the consequences of domestic violence on the performance of school children. The research methodology utilizes descriptive statistics with simple numbers and percentages in the analysis and synthesizing of primary sources of data collected via questionnaire, as well as diverse literature on the area of study. However, the findings revealed that commitment by parents; caregivers and teachers in carrying out their responsibilities seem to be on the decline. The study further exposes some inherent challenges and abuses faced by learners in unsuitable living conditions. The implications of such situations are that learning institution should ascertain possible ways of liberating the affected learner and educate the parents, caregivers and teachers on the negative effects of perpetuating domestic violence. It is therefore, recommended that, Government should establish and fund counselling centres at the community, and Local Government levels and employ professional counsellors to help victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 Background of the Study Domestic violence is assuming national and international attention (Amnesty International 1995). It is a type of violence that is prevalent in many homes, and the World over. It is a form of violence that occurs in the form of defilement, assault, sexual harassment, and rape or battering, child abuse, for example denial of right, necessities and opportunities...
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...Whenever the thought of domestic violence comes to mind, more than often the visual picture is a women or a child. But there is another side that is ignored because it is bushed up under the rug, and ignored as if it is seemingly impossible for it to happen and that is the abuse of men; this review will examine this important and neglected issue that society seems to ignore. On the contrary there are several conflicts that destroy a relationship. The biggest conflicts that seem more widely publicized and always at the forefront is infidelity, poor financial handling, sex, children and abuse. Seemingly, abuse is something that is more tolerated and unmentioned as a code of silence on both sides of the relationship, this is usually the case because the victim (man/women) is too ashamed to mention the abuse, and unless either witnessed or displays visible signs of abuse it will be tolerated until the victim has had enough, or unless death occur. Society is beginning to realize that domestic violence is an increasing growing issue and must continue to work towards implementing programs to decrease it within the homes. The myths! Which are outlandishly ridiculous, with the mitigating factor being the distortion of subconscious beliefs of these myths that leads to abuse; The Super Bowl Sunday myth seems to grow wings and fly because of media, who stated that every year domestic violence rates were higher because of the outcomes of games, this myth was never proven. Then there is...
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...Statistics about domestic violence Incidence and prevalence of domestic violence: General There are no reliable national data on the general incidence of domestic violence in the UK1. In 2011/12, 7.3% women (1.2 million) and 5% men (800,000) report having experienced domestic abuse2. 31% women and 18% men have experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16 years. This amounts to 5 million women and 2.9 million men3. Domestic violence has repeatedly been identified as a major factor leading to death in or related to pregnancy and childbirth: see below. In 2011/12, the police reported nearly 800,000 incidents of domestic violence4. Domestic violence accounts for 10% of emergency calls5. Domestic violence has consistently accounted for between 16% and one quarter of all recorded violent crime6. There has been a 65% increase in number of domestic violence prosecutions between 2005/6 and 2010/11 and a corresponding 99% increase in number of defendents convicted7. Despite this, domestic violence conviction rates in the five years to 2011 stood at just 6.5% of incidents reported to police – though a much higher proportion of around 70% of those charged8. Women are much more likely than men to be the victim of multiple incidents of abuse, of different types of domestic abuse (partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking) and in particular of sexual violence9. Hester, 2008. Office for National Statistics (ONS), 2013. 3 This is a smaller proportion...
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...Expression of anger and relationships Unchecked rage under the canopy of unhealthy derivatives of anger can lead to abuse, which is an expression of an unhealthy relationship, both in a physical and psychological sense. Domestic violence has been defined strictly as physical abuse. However, domestic violence can take on other forms, such as verbal, emotional, sexual or psychological abuse. The focus of this paper will be to compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy relationships when anger is the factor. In relationships, there are healthy and unhealthy feelings that determine the difference between healthy or unhealthy relationships. The thought, or more specifically, the inner reflex ushered by the need to express rage, and the restraint used to filter this rage in an imaginative personal inner fantasy can be healthier than expressing this unchecked uncontrolled anger in a tangible sense. One of the unhealthy expressions of anger is anger that cannot be controlled, most usually called rage. Every emotion has an extreme and the extreme of anger is rage. Human beings are subject to a plethora of emotions filtered through a psychological net and are most times expressed in a physical nature. If one is sad, one can cry, if one is frustrated, one can be moved to yell. Each emotive state has its extreme example. If this were not the case, such societal facts like crime and punishment would not be an effect, or needed. As a society, these emotions, need to be controlled and tempered...
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...development of women in organizations, Decision making, Political participation and gender mainstreaming is currently seen as the dominant conceptual model for promoting social justice and women equality. This study intends to see the position of women, discourses and various political, economic and social factors that surrounded these events. The impediments of women in Bangladesh were being pulled in different directions as a result, the context of social norms and gender inequality that existed at global, national, community and domestic levels. Child marriage is one of the main impediments of women empowerment and implementation of the government‟s vision-2021. In Bangladesh, the patriarchal capitalism puts women in such a position within their communities that they always remain subordinate under male domination and in many cases this is reflected through violence (Hadi, 2009). Keywords: Impediments, dowry, Social Norms, Violence, Empowerment, Freedom of Choice 1. Introduction Social norms are related to human behavior, attitude, and ethics. It is indicate the notions of society about what is good...
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...who are vulnerable to society and does not have enough funds to make ends meet so they are taking advantage of by allowing those to abuse them by receiving payment for their freedom. Women are more vulnerable to trafficking because of the impoverished, uneducated ethnic minority, rural or refugee groups. Most women lack employment because of lack of education. Children are to most vulnerable to trafficking because of the physical, mentally and emotionally they has become by the country. Mothers sit at home wondering if they going to ever see their child again. Because society has made for them to allow their child ages 10-21 to traffic for means of food. “The U.S government estimates that there are approximately 800,000 individuals who are victims of human trafficking worldwide, the majority of whom are females under the age of 18”.(Martin, 2011). These female can be used for many thing, however the targets of large organizations that has business for human trafficking find that women can be sold for various reasons, “including forced servitude and child labor, the majority of human trafficking involves forced sexual slavery where young women and girls are forced to become prostitutes. Girls are sold into sex slavery by family member in need of money, are kidnapped, or are lured into the sex trade with promises of modeling contracts or domestic work in other countries. (Martin,...
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