2. MISSION
Helping domestic victims, come to
realize that they are not the only
ones, and to stand up and have a
voice, is the only way to be heard...
3. WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
• Any type of violence, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse that
involves two intimate partners, weather they are opposite sex or same
sex.
• An argument between friends and family can also be labeled domestic
violence
4. CRIME AND THEORIES
CRIME
• Hitting with excessive force
• Controlling and isolation
• Use of weapons
• Strangulation/Rape
• Damaging property
• Coercing partner into substance abuse
THEORY
• Learned behavior
• Victim blaming theory
• Financial issues
• Exchange theory
• Ecological theory
• Subculture of violence theory
5. STATS
• The most common form of intimate partner violence, particularly in the western world
and among young couples, and involves women and men nearly equally.Among college
students, Johnson found it to be perpetrated about 44% of the time by women and 56%
of the time by men.Theories of intimate partner violence involves blaming the victim as
well as acting against in justice, Intimate partner violence encompasses a variety of
behaviors within adult intimate relationships.The United States has the highest level of
intimate partner homicide of any industrialized country.
6. WHY DO PEOPLE ABUSE THEIR PARTNERS
• Abuser experienced violence
growing up.
• Abusers don't value women
• Abusers don't know how to deal
with their pain,so they inflict it on
others.
• Money issues
• Witnessed parent being abused as a
child and kept the cycle going.
8. WHERE TO SEEK
HELP IN CASE OF
ABUSE
• Emergency 911
• Hotline 211
• Sexual assault crisis (519)253-9667
• Women center
• National domestic Hotline (800)799-7233
9. REFERENCE
• Brownridge,D.A. (2009).Violence against women:Vulnerable populations.Routledge.
• Krantz,G. (2005).ViolenceAgainstWomen.https://jech.bmj.com/content/59/10/818
• MayoClinic.(2021).DomesticViolenceagainst women:Recognize patterns seek
help. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult- health/in-depth/domestic-violence
• Harvard KennedySchool.(2021).Human Rights and Sexual
Violence.https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/himan-rights
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