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Domestic Violence

Introduction

Domestic violence occurs between partners and among family members . It may start from as simple as shouting at each other , which can worsen and lead to robust verbal abuse . It can intensify to physical maladjustment and eventually result to death . It involves a lot of characteristics and manifestations such as , but not limited to , apology coming from the abuser , denial , fault-finding , fear , and despair . There could be reasons to be afraid but they would not address the root cause of the

problem Violence escalates unless steps are taken to change things

Defining Domestic Violence

According to the National Center for Victims of Crime , domestic violence represents the intentional intimidation , assault , battery sexual assault , or other abusive actions committed by a family or household member against another . It is also the aggression done by a close partner , in a conjugal relationship , against his or her other half . In an article titled Domestic Violence , the Center reported that the subjects or victims of domestic violence generally include a spouse former spouse , an individual presently living with another person , or a person who has a child with someone (National Center for Victims of Crime

Another article entitled Domestic Violence Overview ' stated that such domestic violence calls for the use of physical violence , coercion threats , intimidation , isolation , and /or emotional , sexual or economic abuse in for the perpetrator to keep authority and rule over his or her partner . It embraces a constant display of violent actions such as punching and kicking , sexual assault or rape , and even fatal acts such as homicide or murder . Various forms of abuse are inflicted on the victims including verbal , emotional , and psychological abuse

Victims of Domestic Violence

Majority of the victims of domestic violence , approximately 95 percent are women (Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington . This corroborates the public notion that the usual abusers are men while the usual victims are women . Despite this , the set-up can be reversed in some cases wherein men report abuses committed by their female or male partners . Domestic violence is present if a person aims to rule the life of another individual , or the other partner for that matter , with the use of violence . Thus , hostilities may also involve homosexuals disabled people , the elderly , and even just the dating couple . Even the victims may also be perpetrators themselves such as in the case of abuses committed to children (Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

An article by Zach Schauf , sponsored by the Support Network for Battered Women entitled Recent Research on Domestic Violence Demonstrates High Rates of Violence , presents two current studies of domestic violence . These studies show the varying drastic pictures of the levels of domestic abuse . They also report the sociological risk factors of domestic abuse . The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS ) conducted by Callie Rennison and Sarah Welchans for the entitled Intimate Partner Violence ' appraised that a 876 ,340 women were victimized in the United States in the latter part of the...