...I will be introducing you to stalking from the State and Federal perspective and the penalties that are involved for committing this crime. Stalking is a crime of terror with a beginning, but seemingly no end. It's a crime of fear that leaves no physical cuts or bruises at least not unless the stalker becomes desperate and acts out in violence, which is often the case. According to a nineteen hundred and ninety three and nineteen ninety four U.S. Department of Justice study, women are the victims in ninety percent of the cases nationwide and one in twenty of them will be stalked sometime in their life.( National Center for Victims of Crime )Thirty eight percent of stalking victims are single women between twenty and forty five years old, but teens and older people can be targets too. More and more of them are being caught up in terrifying web of obsession, a terrifying pursuit of the victim. (National Center for Victims of Crime) The difference between harassment and stalking is a distinction of the law. Stalking occurs when harassing behavior is repeated, is threatening, is purposefully directed at a specific person, and would cause a reasonable person to fear bodily injury or death for themselves or a family member(AARDVARC) Sometimes, it's just surveillance; everyplace you go, the stalker is there. Without a doubt it's emotional terrorism. The victim can't get away. Then there are telephone calls twenty to fifty a day, notes on the windshield, or they're in the grocery...
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...The Facts on Domestic, Dating and Sexual Violence Domestic, dating and sexual violence are costly and pervasive problems in this country, causing victims, as well as witnesses and bystanders, in every community to suffer incalculable pain and loss. In addition to the lives taken and injuries suffered, partner violence shatters the sense of well-being that allows people to thrive. It also can cause health problems that last a lifetime, and diminish children’s prospects in school and in life. The United States has made progress in the last few decades in addressing this violence, resulting in welcome declines1 – but there is more work to do to implement the strategies that hold the most promise. These include teaching the next generation that violence is wrong, training more health care providers to assess patients for abuse, implementing workplace prevention and victim support programs, and making services available to all victims including immigrants and children who witness violence. Prevalence of Violence in the United States On average more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States. In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner.2 In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published data collected in 2005 that finds that women experience two million injuries from intimate partner violence each year.3 Nearly one in four women in the United States reports experiencing violence by a current or former...
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...Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation.[1] Domestic violence, so defined, has many forms, including physical aggression or assault (hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, slapping, throwing objects), or threats thereof; sexual abuse; emotional abuse; controlling or domineering; intimidation; stalking; passive/covert abuse (e.g., neglect); and economic deprivation.[1][2] Alcohol consumption[3] and mental illness[4] can be co-morbid with abuse, and present additional challenges in eliminating domestic violence. Awareness, perception, definition and documentation of domestic violence differs widely from country to country, and from era to era. Domestic violence and abuse is not limited to obvious physical violence. Domestic violence can also mean endangerment, criminal coercion, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, trespassing, harassment, and stalking.[5] Laws on domestic violence vary by country. While it is generally outlawed in the Western World, this not the case in many developing countries. For instance, in 2010, the United Arab Emirates's Supreme Court has ruled that a man has the right to physically discipline his wife and children as long as he doesn't leave physical marks.[6] The social acceptability of domestic violence...
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...In today's society, people with different family backgrounds are facing various problems. Those problems could be either outside or inside of the home, that causes domestic violence. Women are especially the victim of the domestic violence. Most of the women who experience domestic violence are reluctant to express their voice because they are too afraid of the society. In most part of the world, women are affected by domestic violence. In the U.S., African American females experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white females, and about 2.5 times the rate of women of other races ( Roberta Lee). Most of the women try to make an excuse for domestic violence because they are afraid of stereotype or the society....
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...central part of the United States, and twenty percent of students come from the west coast. Sexual assault and interpersonal violence happens to people regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. With 59% of Georgetown students identifying as Caucasian, 13% as Asian, 8% as African, and 7% as Latino, sexual assault and interpersonal...
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...Week 4 Assignment 2.1 Chazminne Harrison Professor George McGeehan English Composition 11/04/2014 According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) in 2010 one in 4 women (22.3%) have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, while 1 in 7 men (14.0%) have experienced the same physical violence (CDC, 2010). Now, in 2014, one can only imagine how much the numbers have increased. It was also reported by the Safe Horizon group that most domestic violence incidents are not reported to the police. The dangers of being a woman or a man in a relationship filled with domestic violence goes further than just physical damage, but emotional too. Here at Safe Haven, we have a number of medical and financial resources that we offer to the men and women that come to us searching for refuge. We have doctors, both medicinal and psychiatric, on duty as well as job outreach programs that are always looking for new employees; we always have shelters that men, women and families are welcomed to use while they are being rehabilitated. What is domestic violence? Domestic Violence is one person’s use of emotional, physical, economical, and or sexual violence or the threat of violence to get control and keep control of their intimate partner. Domestic Violence comes in many forms which often may include one if not all types of abuse. First there is the most common form of abuse which is Physical Abuse which includes slapping, kicking and or...
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...Violence Against Women Act: Essential and Expired Kamille Hall Hamline University February 2013 GPA 8000: Foundations of Public Administration Violence Against Women Act: Essential and Expired The following is a composite story of what happens to a woman somewhere each day in the United States to women and shows why the Violence Against Women Act must be renewed in 2013. A 30-year-old woman screams in her apartment. She knew he was coming home. Her husband has been on a drinking binge for days. When she receives an angry text message from him, she places the children in another room: they fear for their lives. They have seen this behavior all too often. The kids cower in the closet, a place that gives them some sort of refuge during the storm. In this case the storm is their dad’s misdirected anger toward their mom. They fear for themselves, but not as much as for their mother, their sole support in this chaos. They hear their father come home, yelling for several minutes. The mother tries to calm him down and pleads: “Please don’t hurt me, I’ll give you whatever you want…” Then they hear piercing screams. The front door slams. The children, ages 8 and 6, come rushing out of the closet, only to see their mother lying in a pool of blood – stabbed multiple times. Their father murdered her (what is known as femicide). The Violence Against Women Act works to reduce and prevent domestic violence. Every six minutes in the United States a woman is raped, and most often it is not...
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...Worksheet Workplace Violence Version 1.0: 07 Jun 2013 Presented by: Hossam Bashir I. Problem Definition: Workplace violence is violence or the threat of violence against workers. It can range from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and homicide, one of the leading causes of job-related deaths. However it manifests itself, workplace violence is a growing concern for employers and employees nationwide, representing a real challenge for employers to provide a safe working environement for employees. According to specialists, workplace violence falls into four broad categories: TYPE 1: Violent acts by criminals who have no other connection with the workplace, but enter to commit robbery or another crime. TYPE 2: Violence directed at employees by customers, clients, patients, students, inmates, or any others for whom an organization provides services. TYPE 3: Violence against coworkers, supervisors, or managers by a present or former employee. TYPE 4: Violence committed in the workplace by someone who doesn’t work there, but has a personal relationship with an employee—an abusive spouse or domestic partner. II. Justification to Problem Definition: Statistical data and reports proivde a clear evidence that workplace violence is a growing threat nationwide. * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 18,104 assaults and 609 homicides occurred at workplaces throughout the United States in 2002. Such violence prompted the Centers...
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...marry them. While men are seen as bachelors, but i don't think this is necessarily true because while yes woman might be seen as cat ladies men are also looked upon as losers who couldn't finds the right one. The book also talks about older women are not unhappy being single because they were successful in their careers. I think if people think someone is lonely or sad because they aren't unmarried they probably are just unhappy where they are at in life. Violence in partner groups is one of the later sections in the text. Against women the book states “57 percent involved physical violence only; 9 percent involved rape and physical violence; 14 percent involved physical violence and stalking; 12 percent involved rape, physical violence, and stalking; and 4 percent involved rape only” the rates are higher than men because usually women take the passive role in the relationship. Male Domestic violence is also a real thing and not just made up most cases do not involve rape but can be physical, Many factors go into Domestic violence and its a very delicate subject among many people nowadays but this should not stop the subject from being brought up. . ...
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...12/10/2013 Lecturer’s name: | Student’s name: | Course name and num: | Domestic Violence: Annotated Bibliography | Course name and num: | Domestic Violence: Annotated Bibliography | American Bar Association (ABA), (2003), “American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence.” Retrieved from: http://www.abanet.org/domviol/stats.html This specific reference is employed to enhance the legal consideration of the topic that is domestic violence. The mission of that specific body is to enhance the access to the justice regarding the victims of the violence like domestic violence, sexual violence, along with stalking relative to the legal profession. The authority states many of the information on the literature relating to seductive companion assault revolve all around the technique of prevention as well as causation. To start with, with regards to the problem connected with girls as offenders connected with seductive companion assault, this literature discussed ways in which these girls end up in that place. One locating displays any path leading through victimization for you to incarceration. The reference is aligned with the study under discussion for the reason that it specifically deals with the issue of domestic violence and provide handful of knowledge regarding that particular issue from a broader perspective. Arbetman, P. Lee, McMahon, T. Edward, Edward L. O’Brien., (1994), “Street Law: A Course in Practical Law”, 5th Edition. West Publishing Company. Street...
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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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...Defining domestic violence: Domestic violence is defined by the Home Affairs Committee (1993) as: any form of physical, sexual or emotional abuse which takes place with the context of a close relationship. In most cases the relationship will be between partners (married, cohabiting or otherwise), ex-partners. ( domestic violence: a national survey ….). Some statistics: who are the victims? • Nearly 1 million women experience at least one incident of domestic abuse each year (2009/10 British Crime Survey data:http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb1210.pdf as reported in latest cross-government VAWG strategy http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/crime/call-end-violence-women-girls/vawg-paper?view=Binary) • At least 750,000 children a year witness domestic violence (DoH, (2002) Women's Mental Health : Into the Mainstream, accessed at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Closedconsultations/DH_4075478 p.16) • Two women are killed each week by their partner or ex-partner (Womens Aid (March 2011) accessed at: http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domesticviolencearticles.asp?section=00010001002200410001&itemid=1280) • 54 per cent of women victims of serious sexual assault were assaulted by their partner or ex-partner (Stern, (2010) The Stern Review p.9 accessed at http://www.equalities.gov.uk/pdf/Stern_Review_of_Rape_Reporting_1FINAL.pdf) • Victims of domestic violence are more likely to experience repeat victimisation than victims...
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...Individual Organization Profile Tina Campos ETH/316 January 11, 2014 Karen Harvey There is an organization call DOVES in my community. This organization is a non-profit organization/business that is dedicated to help individuals who has suffered from violence such as abuse, dating violence, sexual abuse, and stalking services. This organization helps out with victims who experiencing any violence and how to deal with it. Also within this program they also help prepare an individual in the future if they are even put into a situation in regards to abuse and what actions should be taken. The organization open speaks with individuals and even family in regards to do with violence and/or abuse. It is explained as to how you may feel in regards to any type of abuse/violence and what possibilities that can be taken in regards to what can be done if the issue arises. You have meetings with the victims and families to have everyone involved so that the victim is not alone if they are ever a victim of abuse and violence. Every victim’s reaction to an assault is different; however, they may find it helpful to learn more about sexual assault and some common reactions victims experience during and after the assault. At the DOVES Program, advocates are available by phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 866-95-DOVES (866-953-6837). You can also call if you feel you need support and guidance. DOVES have resources and information that may help you out and the victim. ...
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...A definition of domestic violence, according to the Women’s Aid Federation (2008) is 'physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence that takes place within an intimate or family type relationship and forms a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour. It may involve partners, ex-partners, household members or other relations’. A common view of domestic violence is that it is the behaviour of a few disturbed or ‘sick’ individuals, and that the causes are psychological rather than social. A startling pattern within domestic violence is that more often than not it is the woman who is abused. Kathryn Coleman (2007) found that women were more likely than men to have experienced 'intimate violence' across all four types of abuse - partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking. Mirrlees-Black found that nearly one in four women have been assaulted by a partner at some time in her life, and one in eight repeatedly so. Whereas only one in seven men have been assaulted and one in twenty repeatedly so. This is confirmed by Russel and Rebecca Dobash (1979), where it was found that violent incidents could be set off by what a husband saw as a challenge to his authority. They also argue that marriage legitimates violence against women by conferring power and authority on husbands and dependency on wives. Official statistics on domestic violence are often an understatement of the true extent of the problem. Stephanie Yearnshire (1997) found that on average...
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...in place perpetrators of abuse are facing different consequences from before. The two different types of abuse that will be discussed further are intimate partner abuse, and elderly abuse. There can be many different issues that are associated with intimate partner abuse. First it is important to know the different types of Intimate Partner Abuse. The four main types are physical abuse, stalking, sexual abuse, and psychological aggression. The issues that can be associated with physical abuse start with the obvious broken bones, or injuries, but it can go further to long term effects on the brain or body. The issues that come from sexual abuse can cause unwanted pregnancies as well as sexually transmitted diseases. This can also lead to abortions, or unwanted children in the picture, which can cause more abuse in the future. Psychological issues that happen because of abuse are sometimes the worst. This can result in feelings of fear and anxiety and cause post-traumatic stress disorder. This is something that causes panic attacks and depression, and sometimes it can result in suicide. Stalking can be a scary thing to deal with because you never know when the person is there or not. This is used as a control over the victim. Other issues that go with all the forms of abuse include headaches, eating disorders, alcohol, and drug use. These issues have changed over the recent years because intimate partner abuse is talked about more. There is a lot more stress and the unfortunate...
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