Investigate domestic violence and the reasons why it occurs

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Amie Hodgson                                                  Candidate no. 3036   Centre no 26302

Aims

My aim is to investigate domestic violence and the reasons why it occurs. I am keen to find out about this topic as I feel that domestic violence is a subject covered up by society. I believe that people should know more about domestic violence, what it involves and why it occurs within the family.

Many police records and statistical data show the amount of domestic violence that occurs, but studies like Dobash and Dobash and Elizabeth A Stanko show this is only the tip of the iceberg, compared to what really goes on behind closed doors. (97 words)

Context and concepts

When researching into why domestic violence occurs I came across many concepts, around the idea of why domestic violence occurs. The first concept that is used in Elizabeth’s Stanko’s study ‘wife battering’. This is a term, which refers to what the husband actually does to the wife. When he hits and beats her it is known as ‘wife battering’. Some sociologists believe this is the wrong phrase to use. I chose this concept as I believe it should be called ‘abusive husbands’ as ‘wife battering’ sounds that it is the wife’s fault, which more often than not is isn’t.

The second concept that I am going to look at is the word Victim. A victim means a person who is injured or hurt by another as the result of an event or circumstance. In this case, the woman is assaulted by her husband. I chose this word to use as one of my concepts as the word victim plays a big part when looking at domestic violence.

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‘Wife battering, all in the family’ is a study written by Elizabeth A Stanko, which claims that only 1 out of every 270 cases of domestic violence, is reported. There are 3,020 reported cases of violence in two Scottish cities; the police found that domestic violence was the second largest type of assault that police know about. In her study she tries to establish why women stay with there husbands and she concluded that the reasons were that the women feel bounded in the relationship and some women feel that their husbands can change and they are really truly ...

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