...domestic violence in the world, however such a statistic fails to recognise the staggering difference in such an accessibility between minority groups such as aboriginals and low socioeconomic families and the mainstream. For equality before the law to be an empty concept, it would have to mean a certain groups accessibility to the law does nothing to eliminate their grievances caused by their socio-economic context. This essay aims to outline the situation of domestic violence as it exists in the modern day, the effectiveness of the current law and government in addressing such issues, effectiveness of the legislation, and the necessity of early interventional education so as to remove t this issue during childhood development. The law, its role and effectiveness Certains sections of the law effectively deal with offenders of domestic violence and recidivism (tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend) which in turn provides justice for victims of domestic violence. In NSW, s14 of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007...
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...Meta-Analysis Study Educational and Skills-based Interventions for Preventing Relationship and Dating Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults Critique of a Cochrane Review Meta-Analysis Study There is a high rate of violence between young adults in relationships. As this is becoming more prevalent it is important to strengthenone’s knowledge base to help prevent this form of violence. A meta-analysis is a process to combine the findings from several independent research studies in a statistical manner. This method is used most often to evaluate the rational and useful way associate several research studies to determine effectiveness of an intervention (Crombie& Davies, 2009). A critique of a study is, “a careful appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of a study” (Polit & Beck, 2008, p. 123). These show areas of inadequacy and adequacy within a research study and to identify any errors. Within this paper there will be a critique of the Cochrane Review Meta-Analysis, “Educational Skills-based Interventions for Preventing Relationship and Dating Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults.” This critique will have several divisions; identification of the level of evidence, describe the search of the literature and the adequacy of the search, description of the replication process, discuss any problems or differences, identify gaps within the literature, discuss any limitations within the study, discuss the strengths of the review, describe the major statistics used to compare...
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...be either peaceful or non-peaceful: The establishment/maintenance of own societies and norms- separate cultural identities within a country The protection of a language through the media and education The growth of separate political parties and devolved power Civil disobedience Terrorist violence Civil war International conflict or disturbances The establishment and maintenance of societies and norms with clear separate cultural identities within a country (e.g. the Bretons in France) • The protection of a language through the media and education (e.g. Welsh, Catalan) • The growth of separate political parties and devolved power (e.g. the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists) • Civil disobedience (the Friends of Owen Glendauer) • Terrorist violence (e.g. the Basques, Chechnya) • Civil war (e.g. East Timor, Tamil Tigers) consequences of separatism may be either peaceful or non-peaceful: The establishment/maintenance of own societies and norms- separate cultural identities within a country The protection of a language through the media and education The growth of separate political parties and devolved power Civil disobedience Terrorist violence Civil war International conflict or disturbances The establishment and maintenance of societies and norms with clear separate cultural identities within a country (e.g. the Bretons in France) • The protection of a language through the media and education (e.g. Welsh, Catalan) ...
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...Domestic Violence Introduction Domestic Violence Against Women is a global issue reaching across national boundaries as well as socio-economic, cultural, racial and class distinctions. It is a problem without frontiers. Not only is the problem widely dispersed geographically, but its incidence is also extensive, making it a typical and accepted behavior. Only recently, within the past twenty-five years, has the issue been "brought into the open as a field of concern and study" (Violence Against Women in the Family, page 38). Domestic violence is not an isolated, individual event but rather a pattern of repeated behaviors that the abuser uses to gain power and control over the victim. Unlike stranger-to-stranger violence, in domestic violence situations the same perpetrator repeatedly assaults the same victim. These assaults are often in the form of physical injury, but may also be in the form of sexual assault. However the abuse is not only physical and sexual, but also psychological. Psychological abuse means intense and repetitive humiliation, creating isolation, and controlling the actions of the victim through intimidation or manipulation. Domestic violence tends to become more frequent and severe over time. Oftentimes the abuser is physically violent sporadically, but uses other controlling tactics on a daily basis. All tactics have profound effects on the victim. Perpetrators of domestic violence can be found in all age, racial, ethnic, cultural...
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...Domestic Violence Against Women is a global issue reaching across national boundaries as well as socio-economic, cultural, racial and class distinctions. It is a problem without frontiers. Not only is the problem widely dispersed geographically, but its incidence is also extensive, making it a typical and accepted behavior. Only recently, within the past twenty-five years, has the issue been "brought into the open as a field of concern and study" (Violence Against Women in the Family, page 38). Domestic violence is not an isolated, individual event but rather a Perpetrators of domestic violence can be found in all age, racial, ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, linguistic, educational, occupational and religious groups. Domestic violence is found in all types of intimate relationships whether the individuals are of the same or opposite sex, are married or dating, or are in a current or past intimate relationship. There are two essential elements in every domestic violence situation: the victim and abuser have been intimately involved at some point in time, and the abuser consciously chooses to use violence and other abusive tactics to gain control over the victim. In some instances, the abuser may be female while the victim is male; domestic violence also occurs in gay and lesbian relationships. However, 95% of reported assaults on spouses or ex-spouses are committed by men against women (MTCAWA e-mail interview) "It is a terrible and recognizable fact that...
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...Violence in the Workplace HCA 250 November 24, 2012 Violence in the workplace has become so bad throughout each state and in the world today. Workplace violence has not only cost American employers in dollars but also in cents. The violence has been taking its toll on the employees day to day. There are beyond numerous numbers of nonfatal acts of violence in the workplace. Who would have thought that waking up in the morning and going to work would be so bad and targeted by violence, discrimination and even some retaliation at work? This has become so sad and disturbing. Now-a-days, children cannot even go to school without being bullied or harassed. The article that was chosen is called “Trends in the Workplace Violence in the Remote Area Nursing Workforce”. This is a very informative article that speaks about the types of violence and how it has increased within the last decade. The article has taken some of the present data of violence in the workplace and compared it to the data that was collected about 13 years ago. The setting of this article took place in Australia and was focused on a few hundred nurses whom worked in rural areas throughout Australia, who worked in the health facilities. According to the article it stated that there has been an “increase in all incidents” that were “reported violence in the workplace between 1995 and 2008” (Opie, Lenthall, & Dollard, 2010). Several times of violence that had been reported were either verbal aggression, physical...
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...Domestic Violence Andy Fernandez, Eugene Ayala-Cruz, Betty Coates, Natalie McClain, Ryon Kosino PSY 400 October 6, 2011 Katherine Anderson Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a serious problem that can occur to any person despite maturity, ethnicity, age, male, or female. Domestic violence dramatically affects the victim and the families of the victim, coupled with society. The account of domestic violence has left a disturbing finger print that has showed its ugly face on society. Additionally, there will be an inspection of the essentials of influence that abet the consciousness and deterrence of this despicable and predatorily violence from person to person. By increasing awareness of domestic violence in today’s society, affected individuals will be afforded a sense of understanding and will exist better by having ways of preventing it from happening to them. Domestic violence did not just begin today. Domestic violence is more prevalent than people know. The subject has been around for a long time, people just hid it well. Mounting alertness of this crime in present-day culture will give individuals the possibility to be attentive and the means to avoid it from ever happening to them or others. Domestic violence will be illustrated in many diverse categories of aggressive associations, for example, there could be the category of child, emotional, marital, and even the abuse of the elderly. This term is used to illustrate an affiliation among two mature...
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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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...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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...INTRODUCTION: The workplace is viewed by most as a safe environment to engage with colleagues but too often is that view destroyed with the actions of violence. Reports of violence at the workplace are often throw to the side as if it had never even happened. These violent acts can range from something minute as bullying to physical / mental abuse and in some rare cases homicide. According to the National Safety Management Society and the National Safe Workplace Institution workplace violence can be defined as “as verbal or physical threatening or harming of an employee or client/customer of an organization by another employee, client/ customer or member of the general public” (Bruce, Nowlin, 2011). These acts of violence include physical assault, threatening behavior, or verbal abuse. Violence is a field that has been well established over time compared to its counterpart. Workplace violence has just made it to the big stage within the past fifteen years. Still being in its infancy, it is sometimes mistaken as aggression. Yes, violence can be a form as aggression but not all aggression takes the form of physical violence. Based on two variables, gender and field of employment (service related industry vs non – service...
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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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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is the scenario chosen by for the remainder of this course. The agency is based out of Portland, Oregon. Portland is a large metropolitan city. Throughout the last five years there have been an increase in reports of domestic and youth violence, spousal and child abuse, assault and road rage incidents. The Organization Mission The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency’s mission 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 in the community. Funding Opportunities The National Foundation has two grant programs that provide to not-for-profit agencies. There is a Small Grants Program that can offer one-time grants up to $5,000.00 to registered charities that have an annual budget that is under $500,000.00. There is also an Investor Program. The Investor Program is an innovative funding program that is designed to support up to six organizations under each of the objectives of the Supporting Families Program. This is with up to $150,000.00 per year for up to three years. Grant Proposal Steps. Grants could be written for the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency to assist with funding. While there are several issues within the Portland area, PEACE would benefit greatly from gaining more...
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...The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence attempts to explore questions that have long perplexed social scientists in the realm of religious studies. A series of forty articles aim to discover the link between religion and violence and how thorough that link is. The bulk of this book examines only the major religions of the world. Such religions go through historical analysis and related to the present day traditions in which violence is understood. The terms religion and violence are both quite ambiguous and sometimes often difficult to define and identify. This book lacks to distinguish collective definitions of the two terms but does so in an effective manner to exemplify their bond. Social, political, and literary themes are used in this multi-dimensional analysis of religious violence. These dimensions include...
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...Violence Interrupters, Credible Experts? Violence Interrupters, Credible Experts? Joel Nguyen York University Violence Interrupters, Credible Experts? The Violence Interrupters are cited to have a goal in mind and that is they’re trying to save lives (The Interrupters, 2011). Violence Interrupters take the initiative in interceding before, while, or after an event of violence in order to stem violent behaviour. However, the question lies if these interrupters can be considered credible sources and experts. The documentary “The Interrupters” shows how they constantly impede upon their own purpose by engaging in uncritical arguments and reasoning. In particular, some of their offenses include arguing with the fallacy of hasty generalization, not fulfilling the criteria to be viewed as a credible expert, and becoming extremely biased in their decision-making. These are all important to take into consideration as they are contrary to the process of a logical and rational inquiry. By critically evaluating the documentary “The Interrupters”, we can come to a reasoned judgment whether or not the people or the arguments proposed were logical, coherent, and within the spirit of inquiry. It is their so-called duty as Violence Interrupters to mediate and mentor and with such a high degree of trust and responsibility, they should be held to the utmost. This means being able to critically present sound arguments and to evaluate themselves to such a degree so as to eliminate all...
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...In chapter ten of Women’s Voices, Feminist Vision’s, the topic of gender violence is discussed. If I must be honest, this is a topic that I am personally not too familiar with. Although I am familiar just how important this issue across America, and the world, within my own life experiences gender violence has not had a strong impact on my life. However, I still relate to several things within the chapter, In particular, Andrea Smith’s article on the Politics of Inclusion was an interesting read. One of the first things I noticed in the reading was how Smith addresses the ironic assumptions behind how violence is viewed within U.S society. Although for many, violence is something that happens solely at home, Smith goes on to explain how...
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