Victimology:
Distinguish between all the different forms of domestic violence and intimate partner violence.
Appreciate how wife beating was rediscovered and how attitudes and responses toward wife beating have changed over the centuries.
Distinguish between victim-blaming, victim-defending, and system-blaming arguments concerning who or what is at fault.
Identify maximalist and minimalist perspectives about the seriousness of the problem of intimate partner violence.
Be able to offer a number of convincing answers to the question of why a battered woman stays in an abusive relationship.
Become familiar with the many changes that have taken place in the way that the criminal justice system handles violence between intimate partners as well as the shortcomings that persist.
Become aware of the problem of violence within couples who are dating.
Become alert to the many aspects of elder abuse.
Become familiar with the different strategies underlying prevention efforts to reduce family violence.
Chapter Outline
VIOLENCE WITHIN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILIES THE REDISCOVERY OF WIFE BEATING
Blaming Her for His Violent Outbursts
How Victims Suffer
Estimates of the Incidence, Prevalence, and Seriousness of Intimate Partner Violence
Recognizing Warning Signs
Fatal Attractions: Slayings of Intimate Partners
Explaining Intimate Partner Violence: Why Doesn’t She Just Leave Him?
Aiding Victims Who Feel Trapped
Battered Women and the Criminal Justice System: Violence is Violence, or Is It?
THE REDISCOVERY OF BATTERED HUSBANDS AND BOYFRIENDS VICTIM PROVOCATION AND MURDER: WHEN IS THE SLAYING OF A WIFE BEATER JUSTIFIED?
Intimate Partner Homicides in the Criminal Justice System
Arguments Stressing That the Brutal Man Did Not Deserve to Die
Arguments Emphasizing that the Brutal Man Provoked the Lethal Response
Key Terms
adult protective services agencies
battered-woman syndrome
clinical fallacy
domestic chastisement
domestic disturbances
domestic tranquility
elder abuse
external validity
gun surrender laws
intimate partner violence (IPV)
mandatory, or pro-arrest, directives
moderate correction
no-drop prosecutions
normative ambiguity
order of protection
patriarchy
primary prevention programs
restraining orders
rule of thumb
secondary prevention programs
shelters
speak-outs
unnatural severity
TERM PAPER DIRECTIONS:
You may select a topic or chapter from our textbook. You are to write an 6-8 page term paper. All APA requirements are required.
Make sure to apply a variety of outside references (rather than just the textbook).
TERM PAPER:
You may select a topic or chapter from our textbook. You are to write a 6-8 page term. All APA requirements are required.
Make sure to apply a variety of outside references (rather than just the textbook).
Write a 6-8 page paper using APA citing.
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