DOEMESTIC VIOLENCE

1. Domestic Violence
Lauryn , Katherine , Jaylene , Wendy

2. What is Domestic Violence?
● The dictionary term of domestic violence is violent or aggressive behavior within
the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner.
● The department of justice defines domestic violence as a pattern of abusive
behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power
and control over their intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual,
emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats that can influence another
person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate,
frighten, terrorize, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.

3. How It Affects The People Abused?
● It affects them by either lowering their self esteem down to the point where
they don't have confident.
● They can't trust nobody because they feel everything they do is wrong.
● Battered women suffer physical and mental problems as a result of
domestic violence.
● Battered women lose their jobs because as a result of the violence.
Absences in agenda forms make people suspect something is wrong in the
household.

4. How to get help?
● The most hardest thing for them is to ask help. Why?
because you are scared whats going to happen.
● Call 911 when you have the time and your partner is not
there.
● Go to work and tell your friends what has been going
on.
● Contact family members it doesn't matter that point.
Yes they might judge you but your life is on the line.

5. Signs of Domestic Violence
● Signs usually start as an emotional problem but then it
escalates into self harm. Many people will try to hide or
deny the abuse and they will outcast themselves from
the real world.

6. Reasons Why People Abuse
Others.
● In most cases, the people who are doing the abusing are
the ones who have been abused in the past. It could also
be because that person is not mentally stable ,is a drug
addict or has anger issue.

7. Where Is It Mostly Found?
● In 1995-1996 studies conducted in the 50 States and in the District of Columbia,
nearly 25% of women and 7.6% of men were raped or physically assaulted by
their spouse, partner, or acquaintance at some time in their life.
● About 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are abused by their partner in the
U.S. today.

8. Races It’s Mostly Found In

9. How Seriously Is It Taken ?
● Millions of women are physically abused by husbands, boyfriends
or intimate partners every year and police in certain areas don’t
take it as serious as it should be.
● HM Inspectorate of Constabulary concluded that 35 of the 43
forces in England and Wales have a service to women who dial
999 after suffering violence in their homes.
● Every 30 seconds a woman calls police for help . The police are
much more concerned with organized crime and burglary .

10. Does it lead to Homicide?
● The answer is YES domestic violence can lead to homicide .Every year in
the United States, 1,000 to 1,600 women die at the hands of their male
partners .
● When domestic violence leads to homicide, it is often a reflection of the
community's failure to recognize the severity and potential lethality of the
problem .
● Homicide usually occurs when the woman tries to leave her abuser .This is
why it is often very hard for the women to leave the man . It can make the
abuser even more violent .