domestic violence power point presentation

1. Maria Araus Rivera
S00987060
Prof. Pablo Fernandez Colon

2.  Domestic violence is a universal phenomenon that persists in all countries and
societies of the world, affecting all communities irrespective of race, gender, class,
religion, cultural backgrounds or ethnicities.
 Regarding to refugee status domestic violence affects women refugees differently.
Women, who flee their homes in search of safe place from violence, face such
different level of domestic violence in many refugee communities.

3.  Occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or
psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence occurs in all cultures; people
of all races, ethnicities, religions, sexes and classes can be perpetrators of domestic
violence. Violence can be criminal and includes physical assault (hitting, pushing,
shoving, etc.), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity), and stalking.
Although emotional, psychological and financial abuse are not criminal behaviors
in some legal systems, they are forms of abuse and can lead to criminal violence.

4.  Physical violence
 Sexual violence
 Emotional abuse
 Economic abuse
 stalking

5.  Lack of education and awareness are the most common reasons for violence
against women. Children who are subjected to abuse are likely to behave similarly
as adults. Socio-economic status, substance and alcohol abuse also leads to
violence against women in India. Sometimes children who witness one parent
abusing the other tend to abuse later in life. Physical effects– Injury, loss of
speech, aches and pain, burns, substance abuse, gynaecological issues, sexually
transmitted

7.  Physical violence is the intentional use of physical force with the potential for
causing injury, harm, disability, or death, for example, hitting, shoving, biting,
restraint, kicking, or use of a weapon.

8.  Sexual violence is divided into three categories: 1. use of physical force to compel a
person to engage in a sexual act against his or her will. 2. attempted or completed
sex act involving a person who is unable to understand the nature or condition of
the act. 3. abusive sexual contact.

9.  Emotional abuse can include humiliating the victim privately or publicly,
controlling what the victim can and cannot do, withholding information from the
victim, deliberately doing something to make the victim feel diminished or
embarrassed, isolating the victim from friends and family, implicitly blackmailing
the victim by harming others when the victim expresses independence or
happiness, or denying the victim access to money or other basic resources and
necessities.

10.  Economic abuse is when the abuser has complete control over the victim's money
and other economic resources.

11.  Stalking generally refers to repeated behaviour that causes victims to feel a high
level of fear.

12.  Domestic violence is one of the severest forms of violence against mankind. • Most
of the cases of abuse go unnoticed or unreported. • Male population is generally
apathetic to the consequences of this abuse even when many among them would
not like to indulge in such a practice. • There is no proper education of sexual
relations as well as of responsibilities of adults who decide to live in a permanent
relationship.