...Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent issue in the United States that researchers have studied closely, and advocates have attempted to help create a large span of awareness along with prevention techniques that can be utilized by the general public and the criminal justice system. The predictors and correlates of physical, psychological and sexual maltreatment of women are varying. There is not any specific set of factors or characteristics that determines who abuses and who is a victim of abuse, but research has shown that there are similarities between cases and have acknowledged certain dynamics that likely contribute to male aggression and the victimization of women in interpersonal relationships. Over time, as an increasing number...
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...There are known to be various forms of violence, but there is one that I believe should be given more importance as it takes place across a diversity of socio-cultural factors and is also one that is known be overlooked often. Intimate Partner Violence, or in other words known as Domestic Violence is a form of violence in which an individual within an intimate relationship is being physically, mentally, or threateningly abused by their partner in order for them to gain control and power over their victim. In these cases, many victims are known to keep quiet due to fear, straying away from reaching out for support, their stories of abuse often stay concealed. Ultimately, preventing society to realize how common such a form of abuse is and perhaps...
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...Intimate partner violence is a global issue. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is not only restricted to North America, it occurs worldwide. In some countries, IPV is not seen as criminal and is not punishable by law. In these countries, men have legal possessions of their wives and can do with them what they please. In other countries, IPV is taken very seriously and is regarded as one of the most traumatizing events that could take place in an individual’s life. This topic is a very sensitive matter and is subject to high scrutiny. Accordingly, the laws surrounding intimate partner violence have been subject to change many times over the course of the past century. After all, it was not until 1983, that men could no longer rape their wives...
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...Preventing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) • Prevention is a process that promotes safe, healthy environments and behaviors that reduce the likelihood or frequency of an accident, injury, or condition occurring. • As evidenced by other health-related conditions, primary prevention (taking action before a problem arises) can successfully reduce or eliminate intimate partner violence. • Health care professionals are in a ideal position to use their influence and credibility to help prevent IPV o They can advocate for change in clinical practice, as well as for policies and procedures. o Because health care providers see IPV firsthand, they are particularly effective when speaking about the issue to legislators, the media, and to the public. (Cohen, et al., 2006, p. 89) Primary Prevention • Effective primary preventions will reduce the emotional, physical, and psychological trauma experienced as a result of IPV (Cohen, et al., 2005, p. 92). • Even when partners and spouses have been brought up in violent home with abusive families, they can learn to rechannel and control their emotions and behaviors and use appropriate coping strategies. • Opportunities for families and individuals to improve relationships with their partner or spouse usually begin with learning appropriate problem-solving skills. • Assertiveness skills for women provide a foundation for empowerment. • Parenting influences children in their coping strategies, decision making, and sense of self-confidence...
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...Based on your readings your readings, explain some of the main issues related to intimate-partner violence By definition, "intimate partner violence" describes physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse. In this reading, some of the main issues related to this kind of violence include: Jendusa-Nicolai explains how her husband mistreated her by beating her up using bat on the head. This is illustrated in the second paragraph of the reading. According to Jendusa (2004),"I remember clunk, and then I remember kind of coming to and I was on the floor. I kind of got up after that, and he hit me again with the bat. I could just hear the blood in my ears, feel the blood in my hair, and there was blood everywhere."...
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...Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious avoidable social problem which affects the community. The term “intimate partner violence” means physical, sexual or psychological harm by a spouse or domestic partner. Intimate partner violence occurs when two people come in a close relationship. Usually, it begins with emotional abuse and proceeds to physical or sexual abuse. IPV has a serious impact on women’s health especially from all ethnic and socioeconomic groups. As per American Nurses Association, IPV is responsible for 30% of female homicides. The most common mental health consequence of abuse is depression. According to CDC the cost of IPV is approximately 8.3 billion for medical, mental hygiene and lost productivity. IPV is connected to harmful health behaviors. Victims may try to adjust their stress in unhealthy ways such as smoking and drinking. The primary goal of IPV is prevention before the occurrence. Previous studies have shown that nurses working in primary health care settings are not well trained enough to identify and provide proper intervention to IPV. When the abuse remains undetected the victim may face long term consequences. The aim of the study was to assess nurses’ awareness and early detection of IPV and to also provide appropriate care to victims who visit the primary care settings. Protection of Human Participants The participants of the research were told about their voluntary participation and withdrawal from the study at any time...
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...Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (2014). Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is the act of violence towards a male or female partner which inflicts physical, sexual or psychological harm. It is also a series of coercive or manipulative behaviors enforced in a relationship to gain control of the victim’s quality of life. While recent media coverage of female victims increased IPV’s awareness and response from our society, it has done little to draw attention to the children, and adolescents who are exposed to the violence. Although the literature covers a lot of information from theorist’s, this literature review primary focus will be about children and adolescents who are expose to IPV and exhibits negative behavioral...
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...The victim of this crime was killed by a repeat offender in California and caused a public outcry for a change. 8. We discussed research on police intervention in situations of intimate partner violence. a) Prior to police interventions such as batterer arrest, what were 2 previous interventions used to combat the problem of intimate partner violence (IPV)? In order to combat intimate partner violence prior to police interventions, domestic violence shelters were used by victims of domestic violence. These shelters provided victims with temporary refuge, childcare, and legal advice. Also, victims could ask the court for a protective order to prevent batterers from getting close to them and causing them more harm. b) Prior to the batterer arrest interventions, what was one potential cause of police not being effective in incidents involving IPV? Prior to the batterer arrest interventions, police took “a do-nothing approach” because the issue of intimate partner violence was often viewed by the public and the police as a family issue and should be resolved by the...
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...It seems that almost monthly we are hearing of some sort of trauma crisis globally and nationally. The importance of Mental Health Responders cannot be understated. There exists an ongoing need for counselors trained to assist in times of crisis. CRITICAL INCIDENTS Incident #1 – Historical widespread trauma that affects an entire culture. These types of events are normally intense enough to influence generations of the culture (SAMHSA, 2014). Incident #2, Intimate Partner Violence, is an ongoing pattern of actual or threatened physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. (SAMHSA, 2014). Incident #3, Mass trauma or disasters affect large numbers of people either directly or indirectly (SAMHSA, 2014). Similarities and Differences The most obvious...
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...Justification The National Organization for Women should pay attention to intimate partner violence issues because women are more often than men to be the victims of intimate partner violence and their mental and physical health is more likely to be affected by this. Intimate partner violence is when a person’s significant other, either prior or current, has committed some sort of violent actions against them (Modi, Palmer & Armstrong 2014). Violent actions are not limited to physical actions, but also sexual and physiological actions (Modi, Palmer & Armstrong 2014). However, intimate partner violence is not always a form of pain; the controlling of one’s behavior is also an act of violence (Modi, Palmer & Armstrong 2014; Sarkar 2008; Singh, Singh & Singh 2014; Zelcer 2014). To force one to act a certain way affects one’s mental state and health. This does not mean that physical violence will not arise afterward if one person of the intimate relationship fails to do as the aggressor told him or her. The majority of women fall under the category of the victim....
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...emotional attachment, commitment to the relationship, guilt, fear, hope that things will get better, and that they think they “deserve” the violence inflicted on them. Having children in a domestic abuse relationship can complicate things as well. Some people leave to protect the children from harm by the abuser, others stay because they cannot financially support or raise the children on their own, or they fear they will lose custody of their children if they leave (Lacey et al. 2011). Victims of intimate partner abuse stay because they fear retribution from their abusive partner if they leave....
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...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...
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...INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: A CASE STUDY OF MANZESE, IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA. Merina Vincent Shaidi MPH (Master of Public Health) Dissertation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences November 2012 INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: A CASE STUDY OF MANZESE IN DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA. By Merina Vincent Shaidi A Dissertation Submitted in (Partial) Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Health of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences November, 2012 CERTIFICATION The undersigned certify that he has read and hereby recommend for acceptance by the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences a thesis/ dissertation entitled Intimate partner violence among women living in informal settlements: A case study of Manzese in Dar es salaam, Tanzania, in (partial) fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of public health of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. ………………………………. Dr. Mangi J.Ezekiel (Supervisor) Date……………………… DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT I, Merina Vincent Shaidi, declare that this dissertation/thesis is my original work and that it has not been presented and will...
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...Michael Johnsons book, A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence provides an in-depth analysis of intimate partner violence, broken up into four different categories in hopes to clarify past research that has created misleading, problematic and contradictory findings. The four different types of intimate partner violence, according to Johnson, are intimate terrorism, violent resistance, situational couple violence, and mutual violent control. Johnson argues that intimate partner violence is not a unitary phenomenon and that understanding intimate partner violence as having different types will help those in the field of domestic violence to diminish overgeneralizations and provide better support for women experiencing intimate partner violence. Johnson formulates his book with an initial overview of the four different types of intimate partner violence and how determining which type of intimate partner violence, either intimate terrorism, violent resistance, situational couple violence, or mutual violent control, will help researchers move forward with their findings and the various conclusions that have surfaced over the past thirty years. Johnson dedicates three chapters of his book, one to intimate terrorism, and another to violent resistance, and a third to situational couple violence, claiming that these are the most prevalent forms of intimate partner violence found today. Johnson does not dedicate a chapter...
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...Domestic Violence Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States, more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined. ("Violence Against Women, A Majority Staff Report," Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 102nd Congress, October 1992, p.3.) There are 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. There are 3,800 animal shelters. (Schneider, 1990). Three to four million women in the United States are beaten in their homes each year by their husbands, ex-husbands, or male lovers. ("Women and Violence," Hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, August 29 and December 11, 1990, Senate Hearing 101-939, pt. 1, p. 12.) One woman is beaten by her husband or partner every 15 seconds in the United States. (Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1991). One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. (Tjaden, Patricia & Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, “Extent, Nature and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey,” 2000; Sara Glazer, "Violence, Against Women" CO Researcher, Congressional Quarterly, Inc., Volume 3, Number 8, February, 1993, p. 171; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The National Institute of Justice, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, July 2000;...
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