...December 2014 Domestic Violence and Native American Women One in five, or nearly twenty-two million women, have been raped at some point in their lifetimes (The White House Council of Women and Girls 1). This alone is a surprisingly large statistics; however it does not seem quite as large when compared to the percentage of Native American women who experience rape. One in three Native American women experience rape in their lifetimes ("UNITED STATES: Crimes Against Native Women More Frequent, Less Often Prosecuted.") Rape is defined as forced intercourse, which can include vaginal, anal, or oral penetration. Rape is a purposed, measure form of control that ignores the feelings, fears, wishes, and sexual...
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...Laws and Policies that Address Children’s Exposure to Domestic Violence Laws and Policies that address children’s exposure to domestic violence Despite the high rates of violence against women and the recent attention to the physical and emotional consequences of this abuse, until recently relatively little attention had been given to the unseen victims—the children. More than half the female victims of domestic violence live in a household with children under the age of 12.Greenfield (1998). Research suggests that between 3.3 million and 10 million children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence each year and more than a decade of empirical studies indicates that exposure to domestic violence can have serious negative effects on children. These effects may include behavioral problems such as aggression, phobias, insomnia, low self-esteem, and depression. Children exposed to domestic violence may demonstrate poor academic performance and problem-solving skills, and low levels of empathy. Exposure to chronic or extreme domestic violence may result in symptoms consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder, such as emotional numbing, increased arousal, avoidance of any reminders of the violent event, or obsessive and repeated focus on the event. Retrospective studies indicate that there may also be negative effects in adulthood, including depression, low self-esteem, violent practices in the home, and criminal behavior. Carlson (1992). Families affected...
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...is a constitutional issue that is prevalent in this case. Another major issue is whether individuals with domestic violence restraining orders should be allowed to keep and possess their weapons. In this case, Zackey Rahimi challenged the law that prohibits individuals such as himself from owning firearms, arguing that it restricted his second amendment right to keep and bear arms. In the case of United States v Rahimi,...
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...should outlaw and prohibit domestic violence offenders from purchasing firearms or deadly weapons. Jennifer states that Nebraska should mirror federal law and prevent domestic violence offenders from purchasing firearms and ammunition. The audience is the citizens of Nebraska and the entire United States. Jennifer’s topic is very interesting, and she states concrete evidence to support her position. Jennifer demonstrates a vast knowledge of the subject. She conveys precise information to the audience. Author’s Position- Jennifer proactively wants domestic violence offenders not to have the right to purchase firearms to protect citizens of Nebraska from being killed. A study conducted...
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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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...be human service agencies and the differences are what makes up the plethora of agencies still considered human service branches. The Human service agency I chose to work with this block is the Peace Domestic Violence Agency, I am pulled towards this agency because I can see not only does this help abused spouses in a relationship but also children who are most often times the unseen victim. an agency such as this opens up the spectrum for so many that may need to be reached, and on many different levels from basic needs to counseling, from children's delicate needs to protection of a whole family when necessary. let's take these proven statistics as an example[ Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten, and Studies suggest that up to 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually.] ("domestic violence statistics," 2012) these statistics are very powerful, and eye opening. let's begin by establishing the mission of the peace domestic violence agency, which is [to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors, and promote recovery through direct services. Peace is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence within the community.] (Hsm/270 appendix B). agencies of this type where there are many victims or peoples affected generally have other human services that may be available because no one...
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...Child Exposure to Domestic Violence Introduction: Domestic Violence is any willful intimidations, sexual assault, physical assaults, or any other forms of physical or verbal violent behavior by one intimate partner towards another. Domestic Violence can create both psychological and emotional effects on both the intended victim and anyone that witnesses it to include children. Some children that witness domestic violence are experiencing serious effects that they have to deal with all their lives. The severity of these effects on children depends on the intensity, consistency and whom is being assaulted. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Syndrome is one of the most serious effect that children are experiencing from Domestic Violence. Children exposed to Domestic Violence are effected in different ways. Most of these effects may disappear during childhood while most of them stays with the child into their adulthood years. Some of these violence that our children are exposed to today are the results of parents that were exposed to some kind of violence during their childhood or it can be a result of inexperienced parents. There are many different behaviors that we can see in our children today as results of Domestic violence. Local and Federal government have agencies today that are designed to handle affected children and laws are in place to avoid Domestic violence. Domestic violence is one of main effect of the negative behavior that we see in our children today. Children...
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... Professor Robinson Contemporary International Problems September 9, 2010 Weapons Under Control Weapons are a major issue facing the world today. Regardless of whether it is arms control or guns control, weapons cause a lot of turmoil and deaths among military wars, children, domestic violence, and mentally disturbed. There should be laws in place to limit weapons or ban them altogether. The world today has a major issue with arms control because a war can really destroy every living thing. So to control weapons we have to find out who has the weapons. Weapons such as, nuclear weapons, biological, chemical, and small arms, we need to control them in order to prevent the weapon problems. The lives of innocent people are continually threatened by war, and responsible governments and concerned citizens must continue to devise ways to combat violence. “ Adopting a policy of doing nothing simply defers the problem to a later date when the level of destruction and the costs of intervening are higher and the risks of action are even greater” (Carnegie Commission of Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1997,p.5). The main concern in our society today is guns control. On July 2, 2010, three year old Jayden Gayle Simmons was shot in the leg in North Charleston, S.C.. This is an incident that happened as...
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...Gun control laws in America began with the writing of the United States Constitution; the document that provided a framework for the young country’s government, and provided all basic rights and laws that each American has and abides by. The second amendment to the constitution is for all Americans the right to keep and bear arms. The exact language of the text sparks much debate on how this right applies to the people, but many interpret it as the right for each individual American to keep firearms for their personal use. For the last few decades, much debate has been brought upon the amendment as the need for firearms has gone down while the risk of endangerment because of them has gone up. Because of the increasing in mass gun violence and...
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...Nejra Keserovic Paul Berg English 102 3 April 2013 VAWA Act of 1994 The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 is a United States Federal law including many measures to reduce the amount of violence against women, providing services to victims of gender-based violence, and holding perpetrators accountable for their actions. The section under this act specifically related to this particularly is Section 41302 under Title 4. Under Section 41302, the purpose stated is to prevent crimes against women, children and youth; increase the resources and services available to prevent violence against women, children, and youth; reduce the impact of the exposure of violence in the lives of children and youth so the cycle of violence can be stopped. It will also create new educational service programs to help prevent children in vulnerable families from becoming the next victims or perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; It will also promote new programs created to ensure children are given the help they need to break the cycle of violence and begin to develop mutually respectful non-violent relationship. U.S. Senator Joseph Biden sponsors legislation called the Violence Against Women Act, as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The legislation passes with bipartisan support of 226 sponsors in the House and 68 in the Senate. The act authorized $1.6 billion to be spent over six years on the creation of rape crisis...
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...I have chosen to do my paper on the Army of God. This domestic terrorist group is against abortion. They are a US based Christian fundamentalist group. The Army of God encourages the use of brutality and violence against abortion clinics and homosexual groups of people. They choose to be a domestic terrorist group because they are against abortion and homosexuality. They are a highly into the Christian values and critical towards the government for not upholding or observing the Christian values. This group believes that abortion is murder and if you look up the Ten Commandments, number 6 states that you shall not murder. This terrorist group targets abortion clinics and gay or lesbian gathering places. Eric Robert Rudolph Eric Rudolph used the name Army of God in one of his bombings and police charged that he was probably persuaded by the group’s extreme right Christian identity. On July 29, 1988 Eric Rudolph admits to placing a bomb in an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. During this incident one security guard was killed and one staff member was injured. As quoted by Rudolph “I did not target them for who they were - but for what they did” (RUDOLPH, 2012). Rudolph believes that abortion is murder and also believes that deadly force is justified to stop abortion. Eric Rudolph was sentenced on July 18, 2005. He received life in prison without the possibility of parole. Rudolph pleaded guilty to attacks in Georgia and Atlanta to avoid the death penalty. This included...
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... September 2, 2011 Weapons Under Control If I had the resources or power to change one societal issue, I would like to change gun control. Weapons are a major issue facing the world today. Regardless of whether it is arms control or guns control, weapons cause a lot of turmoil and deaths among military wars, children, domestic violence, and mentally disturbed. There should be laws in place to limit weapons or ban them altogether. The world today has a major issue with arms control because a war can really destroy every living thing. So to control weapons we have to find out who has the weapons. Weapons such as, nuclear weapons, biological, chemical, and small arms, we need to control them in order to prevent the weapon problems. The lives of innocent people are continually threatened by war, and responsible governments and concerned citizens must continue to devise ways to combat violence. In a meeting with President Obama, Jim and Sara Brady visited the White House and in the meeting President Obama told them that he was working on the new gun control schemes “under the radar” (Norris, 2011, p1). The main concern in our society today is guns control. On July 2, 2010, three year old Jayden Gayle Simmons was shot in the leg in North Charleston, S.C... This is an incident that happened as the son and mother were walking near the back...
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...________________________________________ SUMMARY Congress continues to debate the efficacy and constitutionality of federal regulation of firearms and ammunition. Various federal laws have been enacted since 1934 to promote such regulation. Gun control advocates argue that they curb access by criminals, juveniles, and other "high-risk" individuals. They contend that only federal measures can successfully reduce the availability of guns. Some seek broad policy changes such as near-prohibition of non-police handgun ownership or the registration of all firearm owners or firearms. They assert that there is no constitutional barrier to such measures and no significant social costs. Others advocate less comprehensive policies that they maintain would not impede ownership and legitimate firearm transfers. Opposition to federal controls is strong. Gun control opponents deny that federal policies keep firearms out of the hands of high-risk persons; rather, they argue, controls often create burdens for law-abiding citizens and infringe upon constitutional rights provided by the Second Amendment. Some argue further that widespread gun ownership is one of the best deterrents to crime as well as to potential tyranny, whether by gangs or by government. They may also criticize the notion of enhancing federal, as opposed to state, police powers. The two most significant federal statutes controlling firearms in the civilian population are the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control...
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...disproportional rates. Therefore, one must ask why the justice system contains such disparity and what can be done to rectify these injustices? Marissa Alexandra’s case demonstrates how the Stand Your Ground law was applied so randomly in one state. A Florida jury found George Zimmerman, who gunned down an unarmed black man, innocent of murder, on the basis of Stand Your Ground law. However, when...
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...With such policies, the development of counter-terrorist strategies require a definition of what terrorism is. According to Clarke (2009), the difficulty in assigning a truly comprehensive definition to terrorism lies in the fact that, not only is it challenging to be specific when motives, targets and methods differ so broadly from case-to-case, but the complexity of untangling the overlaps within each of these categories makes the task virtually impossible. Terrorism as defined by FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classifies terrorism in three branches: international terrorism, domestic terrorism, and federal crime of terrorism. As referenced in Chapter 113B of the Code 18 U.S.C. § 2331, terrorism involves violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law. Specifically with international terrorism, these acts are those that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce the civilian population either by the influence of policy or violence generation a mass scale impact. Additionally, international terrorism occurs outside the...
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