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A 6 page research paper that offers an overview of domestic violence. Topics covered include definitions of domestic violence and its emergence as a social issue historically; theoretical explanation for its incidence and relevance of gender; potential impact on women and children; and evaluation of current resources and initiative. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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violence indicates the extensive nature of domestic violence, its detrimental effects, and the extent to which interventions and legal reform is working. Definitions of domestic violence/how this issue emerged
historically Chronister and McWhiter (2003) define domestic violence only in terms of battered women. However, the definition of the American Psychological Association (APA) is broader and defines it as
a "pattern of abusive behaviors including a wide range of physical, sexual and psychological mistreatment used by one person in an intimate relationship with another to gain power unfairly or
maintain that persons misuse of power, control and authority" (Martin, 2002, p. 7). Walton (2003) points out that definitions of domestic violence usually are worded broadly in order to encompass
a pattern of behaviors used in a variety of intimate relationships. Domestic violence as a public policy issue is a fairly recent development. Up until the early twentieth century,
there was considerable legal and institutional support for wife beating (Watson, 2003). It was the womens movement in the 1960s that first called attention to the legal and procedural barriers
that existed between safety for women and the assumed right of a husband to beat his wife (Walton, 2003). Beginning in the late 1970s, advocates for battered women began to
establish partnerships with lawmakers that resulted in criminal justice reform and the establishment of womens shelters. However, there were states in the Union until the 1980s that still carried immunity
laws on their books that were based on the common law of the 1800s, and protected a mans right to beat his wife (Feinberg, 2002). Landmark legislation was passed by
Congress in 1994 and renewed in 2000, which offered federal assistance for a variety of solutions to domestic violence, including funding for womens shelters, a national domestic-abuse hot line, rape
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