Betty Waltermire
Crime and Criminology JUS110
December 21, 2013

Economically Disadvantaged: Women and Intimate Partner Violence
According to some theorist who connect criminal behavior patterns to gender, interestingly created by management of material wealth and groups struggling in society. Although some women do not have the power and resigned to commit less serious, non-violent, self-destructive crimes such as abusing drugs sometimes to survive day to day. Federal and state cuts to social services in the budgets have also affected women.
When lower class males, whether husbands or boyfriends lose their employment, they establish their self- image through acts of machismo and this includes violent abuse of wives and girlfriends (Siegel, 2013). Males typically seek out same-sex peer groups for social approval these groups encourage exploitation and sexual abuse of women.
College campus fraternities and other groups may encourage violence against women who are touted as teasers, easy pickups or loose (Siegel, 2013). Exploitation of women may trigger the onset of deviant behaviors such as promiscuity, alcohol or drug abuse, theft, assault, and robbery.

Females run away from home during their youth and turn to substance abuse to block the pain they suffered at the hands of a parent, relative or partner. By the time they are adults, who have been abused, tend to look at potential mates more closely to try and keep free from an abusive relationship. Intimate Partner Violence depicts physical, sexual, or psychological damage by a current or former partner or spouse. This compulsion can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples and does not require sexual intimacy (Baird, Spring 2010). Some types of abuse is associated with Intimate Partner Violence include; neglect, abandonment, financial and