Domestic violence Essay Domestic Violence Against Men

1. Domestic violence
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Domestic Violence Persuasive Essay Final Draft
"Every year, in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of reported domestic violence.
Every year, 4,000 victims of domestic violence are killed." (Domestic Violence: Disturbing Facts
about Domestic Violence). Domestic violence is a crime that is not just committed in the United
States, but worldwide. This crime is committed every day, every hour, every minute, and every
second. Anybody can be a victim or the abuser. This can happen to any child, man or woman. This
is a horrific crime. Women are more likely to be the victim in domestic violence than men.
"Forty–five percent of all violent attacks against female victims 12 years old and older by multiple
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This act of abuse is when the victim is being touched or sexual act is being preformed is unwanted.
The abuser sometimes uses this tactic as a punishment. "Financial abuse is the use or misuse,
without the partner's freely given consent, of the financial or other monetary resources of the
partner or of the partnership." (Types of Domestic Abuse). The abuser will keep the victim(s) away
from their jobs, which will cause them to lose money and eventually get fired. The abuser will also
create conflict with the victim's coworkers. They will also take the victim's credit cards and will also
take control of their bank account(s) and control their spending. "Identity abuse is using personal
characteristics to demean, manipulate and control the partner...tactics overlap with other forms of
abuse, particularly emotional abuse...comprised of the social "isms", including racism, sexism,
ageism, able–ism, beauty–ism, as well as homophobia." (Type of Domestic Abuse). The abuser will
stereotype the victims(s) by their ethnicity, race, sexuality, or gender. They will also humiliate them
and judge them by their behavior and how they do things. This will also lower the victim's self
esteem and self confidence. These types of abuse are very dangerous psychologically and physically.
In order to help stop this crime, people will need to be educated on domestic violence and the ways
to help prevent this from happening. Educating people on domestic violence can
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2. Essay Domestic Violence Against Men
The first reaction upon hearing about the topic of battered men, for many people, is that of
incredulity. Battered husbands are a topic for jokes (such as the cartoon image of a woman chasing
her husband with a rolling–pin). One researcher noted that wives were the perpetrators in 73% of the
depictions of domestic violence in newspaper comics (Saenger 1963).
Battered husbands have historically been either ignored or subjected to ridicule and abuse. In
18th–century France, a battered husband "was made to wear an outlandish outfit and ride backwards
around the village on a donkey" (Steinmetz & Lucca 1988).
Even those of us who like to consider ourselves liberated and open–minded often have a difficult
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More recently, in a study of spousal homicide in the period from 1976 to 1985, it was found that
there was an overall ratio of 1.3:1.0 of murdered wives to murdered husbands, and that "Black
husbands were at greater risk of spouse homicide victimization than Black wives or White spouses
of either sex" (Mercy & Saltzman 1989)]
The subject of husband–battering had finally been addressed, but not to the great satisfaction of
anyone. Although it had finally been shown that there was violence being perpetrated both by wives
and husbands, there was no information about relative frequency or severity, or who initiated the
abuse and who was acting in self defense. Furthermore, some researchers became concerned that the
use of police or social services references in choosing subjects to study might be biasing the results.
In short, they recognized that battered husbands might be nearly invisible next to their female
counterparts.
In 1976, for instance, in a critique of the Curtis report (which found women less likely to assault,
but as likely to murder, as men), Wilt & Bannon wrote that "nonfatal violence committed by women
against men is less likely to be reported to the police than is violence by men against women; thus,
women assaulters who come to the attention of the police are likely to be those who have produced
a fatal result."
Steinmetz uncovers some suprises
In 1977, Suzanne Steinmetz released results from
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