...DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NARRATIVE REPORT KoseKwu Usiade Unit: 501 Case No. 714502 On July 14, at 2:15pm we were dispatched to a Domestic disturbance call at 114 Elm Street, Center City. Upon arrival at 2:20pm, my partner and I met a White female Martha Goodson DOB 1972. She was the neighbor who made the 911 call. She complained about loud arguing from 114 Elm Street and informed us there had been three domestic disturbances in the last 6 months and one in the last week. We approached the house and noticed there was only one car parked in the driveway, a 1999 Toyota Camry. The front door was also ajar. We knocked on the door and a White male, Mark Whitworth opened the door. He was about 6ft, with short blond hair sweating, red face and smelt of alcohol. Standing behind him was a white female Jana Whitworth in her early 20s. We spoke with them separately. The husband was cooperative but obnoxious and drunk. They both confirmed that neither of them had struck or threatened each other. My partner and I counseled both parties an attempted to mediate a solution that will be in the best interest of the both of them without and enforcement action. Mark Whitworth agreed to do to bed and Jana Whitworth decided to go to her mother’s house where her 6yrs old daughter was for the rest of the afternoon. We left thereafter. At 6:30pm, we received a priority 1 domestic disturbance. Neighbor reported a man assaulting a woman on the porch of the residence. Man was armed with some type...
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...•The Illinois appellate court, citing a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, says that "Perhaps we could never succeed in intelligibly defining the kinds of matter we understand to be embraced within the shorthand description of battered woman's syndrome." Why not? Would you be able to formulate an effective legal description of "battered woman's syndrome"? If so, what would it be? I entirely agree with the statement given by the Illinois and a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. We can never successfully define battered woman's syndrome few sentences formed by words. Battered woman's syndrome involves much more than objective words. The elements of battered woman's syndrome involves violence and physical and emotional distress caused by the violence. One...
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...The case that I am going to reference for this week’s assignment regarding the Battered Woman Syndrome defense is the case, Boykins v. State (2000). The case came before the Supreme Court of Nevada in 1999. Appellant Patricia Boykins was charged with first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon (Boykins v. State, 2000). During her trial, Boykins reported that she killed the victim in self-defense claiming that she suffered from battered woman syndrome. During her trial, an expert testified to the effects of the syndrome regarding a woman’s beliefs, behavior, and perceptions. The jury returned a guilty verdict of involuntary manslaughter with the use of a deadly weapon. Ms. Boykins was sentenced to a term of nineteen months and a maximum term of forty-eight months....
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...The Sustainability of BWS under Philippine Laws (A Position Paper) The case of People v. Genosa in 2004 was a landmark case that allowed for the Philippine laws to recognize a kind of self-defense that is exclusively for women. The recognition of Battered Women Syndrome (BWS) was not only considered a triumph for Women and Children’s Rights advocates but it was also an implied recognition of the insufficiency of laws protecting the rights of women and children in the country by the highest court of the land. Thus, three months after the promulgation of the People v. Genosa Decision, Republic Act No. 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act (AVAWC) was enacted. I. The Status of Women Experiencing Violence in the Philippines Abuse of women in the Philippines is not a new issue. Reports of violence against women have consistently been present in data gathered by concerned agencies and advocate groups. In 2008, the Philippine National Police reported 6, 905 and in 2009, a total of 9, 485 cases of violence against women respectively. Table 1. Cases of Violence Against Women Reported to the Police, 2008-2009 |Classification of Offenses |2008 |2009 |08-09 Inc/Dec | | |Number |Percent |Number |Percent |Number |Percent | |Rape |811 |11...
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...United States, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate partners on average. In 2000, 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner (Strucke & Hajjar, 2010).Studies suggest that there is a cause-effect between a pattern of violence in an intimate partners relation and the subsequently depression and suicidal behavior of the victim. And most of them exhibit the Battered Woman Syndrome (Strucke & Hajjar, 2010). But what exactly cause this syndrome, it is a mental illness or a learned behavior passed down generationally. First we have to understand...
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...week’s assignment asked me to visit with a program facility that deals with human services that use behavioral tools and cognitive behavior approaches to the issue the clients face. This past week I visited the Battered Woman's Shelter of Paulding County, Georgia. This group houses woman and their children if they have any. They come from homes where there was abuse that took place. The abuse considered is verbal, mental, and physical. Sometimes only one takes place and in other homes all three forms of abuse takes place. There are 159 people currently living at this facility. The program is run by West Ridge Church. Like I mentioned before it is only for women and children if they have them. The counselors that work with these woman and children are certified through the state of Georgia and are on staff at West Ridge Church. They let the church know of the program but the facility is hidden and not everyone knows where it is located. The goal of the facility is to let the woman and children know that they are not the one in the wrong and help them through the treatments to realize this. Not all the clients work and heal at the same time so the process varies on the person and the situations that they came from. They have therapy both group and single for the women and children and there is also therapy to grow through as a family. The children of the facility all get to play and socialize with other children in the group homing. They get to go to therapy together and discuss...
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...Women are subjected to the worst types of violence every day in a nation that guarantees equality and freedom to each and every citizen. These acts of violence occur mostly within the structure of domestic violence relationships. This is due to long standing and deeply penetrating socially accepted double standards that women find themselves forced to live and cope with this brutality. Sometimes, women within domestic violence situations must kill to escape. Yet, when these women are forced to kill to obtain freedom, they find themselves confronting even more victimization from the legal system. Lenore Walker, a psychologist who researched the violence women and children suffered, wanted to explain the cycles of domestic violence that were outside the normative standard of the mean. She wanted to walk the layperson through the plights and inhumane treatment that some of these women and children suffered and through sympathy, compassion and understanding gather support for their dilemma. Therefore, the idea was to apply the concept of learned helplessness to help educate the publics’ awareness and to dispel stereotyping and myths. The term applied to this defense was the Battered Women’s Syndrome used in cases where a woman kills a male in an attempt to survive....
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...on present thinking, behavior, and communication, rather than the past and teaches problem-solving skills. One way to do this is with a technique called grounding. Stating the basic facts surrounding the individual without attaching any emotion to the surrounding can help “ground” a person into focusing on the here and now. Person-centered therapy is, (also known as client-centered or Rogerian therapy), according to www.minddisorders.com, focuses on the client taking responsibility for their own therapy. The therapist is non-directive. The Mayo Clinic’s Web site identifies individual psychotherapy as being a general term to identify a person’s moods, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, while teaching coping skills. Battered...
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...arrested after confessing to shooting her husband and pointing to the pistol near the bed. When she arrived at the police station, Dominique wavered her right to remain silent, until the detective wrote a statement. She signed the statement and the prosecution charged Mrs. Stephens with the First Degree Murder of her husband Donovan Stephens. After confessing, however, she asserts through her attorney that it was an act of self-defense and that she is suffering from Battered Woman Syndrome. She claims that the lives of her and her kids was in imminent danger. Statutory law claims that, “Whoever, being of sound memory and discretion, kills another purposely, either of deliberate and premeditated malice or by means of poison... is guilty of murder in the first degree.” Case Law states that, “An intentional murder in the first degree if it is committed with premeditation in cold blood. It is murder in the second degree if it is committed on impulse or in the sudden heat of passion.” Battered woman syndrome (BWS) is a mental disorder that develops in victims of domestic violence as a result of serious, long-term abuse. BWS is dangerous primarily because it...
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...countless women across not only the United States but also throughout the entire world. Domestic violence is defined by the United States Department of Justice as “...a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or...
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...Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization Author(s): Demie Kurz Source: Social Problems, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 69-81 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/800730 Accessed: 16-09-2015 04:38 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Oxford University Press and Society for the Study of Social Problems are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Social Problems. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 165.193.178.74 on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:38:26 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization* DEMIE KURZ, PhiladelphiaHealth ManagementCorporation to "-the injuryof womenby husbandsand medicalresponses "battering are Reformers attemptingto restructure boyfriends-by encouraginghealth care personnelto identifyand intervenein cases involvingbatteredwomen...
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...can include many types of offences. These offences branch off depending on categories of action, such as whether the abuse is physical, sexual, or psychological, and the perpetrators of the abuse. One area of abuse is spousal abuse, which can also be grouped under the broader category of domestic abuse. In 2014, Statistics Canada reported that nearly equal proportions of men and women experienced spousal abuse during the preceding five years, with about 342,000 women and 418,000 men across the provinces (Statistics Canada, Trends). However, the narrative that is painted across the country is that women are the only victims, and that “female victims suffer more physically,...
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...Domestic Violence amongst African American Women Domestic violence occurs in an estimated 4 million intimate relationships each year in the United States. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in which a person uses coercion, deception, harassment, humiliation, manipulation, and/or force to establish or maintain power and control over his or her intimate partner. Economic, emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, and verbal tactics are used by perpetrators to control and obtain power over their partners. Domestic violence crosses ethnic, racial, age, national origin, sexual orientation, religious, and socioeconomic lines. The majority of victims of domestic violence in heterosexual relationships are women. One out of every three adult women experiences at least one physical assault by an intimate partner during adulthood. African Americans experience domestic violence at a high rate in comparison to their numerical representation in the population. Although domestic and sexual violence occurs in all socioeconomic classes, socioeconomic disadvantages do increase the risk of the incidence of violent crimes. In intimate partner violence cases of spousal assault, power balance is an important risk factor. Among domestic violence cases, husbands who have (or feel that they have) less power than their wives are more physically abusive toward them, because of the perceived lack of power in other areas of their lives. Although there are different sociological theories...
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... Sins by silence This is a film about women who killed their husbands because of heated passion, prolonged abuse physical and mental. It offers a unique gateway that touches the lives of women who have experienced tragedy in their lives’ worst-case scenarios. These women have committed heinous crimes by killing their abusive husbands. Getting rid of abusive husbands is morally wrong and does not conquer with ethical standards as far as the society is concerned. A good alternative would be to get a divorce or separation where each party would go separate ways without bothering the other. Moreover, there are several solutions of dealing with an abusive husband. One of them would be to sue by presenting him in a court of law. After reviewing the evidence presented, the judges would determine the corrective action, which might either be a sentence or fine. The second way to deal with an abusive husband is to seek for divorce. This would be a good option if both parties are not happy living with each other. A divorce will lead to separation where both parties will lead separate lives the best way they know how. It will also allow the parties to remarry and lead a happy life thereafter. Another way is to seek the help of a counselor. A counselor would offer advice and solution to the affected marriage. He/she might help change the character of the abusive husband, which might change for ever. Committing murder is not a solution. Many women who fall victims commit murder out of anger...
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...Jodi Arias Articles These are some of the essays that I have written about the Jodi Arias trial. Many more to come. JODI ARIAS TRIAL: SECOND EXPERT WITNESS, ALYCE LAVIOLETTE UNDER SCRUTINY Alyce LaViolette is the second expert witness called by the defense in the Jodi Arias trial. Ms. LaViolette has a Masters degree and has worked since the 1970s in the field of domestic violence. She has been described by some as being a man hater. For instance, attorney and radio host Jenny Hutt, in her appearance on the Dr. Drew show, referred to Ms. LaViolette’s testimony in the following way: “I feel like she`s just a man hater…she`s clearly prejudicial, and she just reads that she doesn`t like men.” This criticism, valid or invalid, is also present in professional critiques, couched using terms such as “feminist perspective” and even extends to the personal reviews that can be found on Amazon.com. One reviewer, asked the question “did she ever meet a man who was not an abuser?” Obviously, the impression of Ms. LaViolette, as being a man hater, is legitimate in the minds of many people. She has left that impression with many readers and viewers of her work. This is not to say that Ms. LaViolette is a man hater, just because a number of people think her so. That would be unfair. It would be fair to say this. Her behavior, her writing, her court testimony, has left a significant number of people with the impression that she is a man hater. I don’t know if she is a man...
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