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This 4 page paper examines domestic violence in general but focuses on resources in upstate New York. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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women. Men are sometimes the victims, and both gay and lesbian relationships can also end in violent outbursts. While there is a problem, governments have attempted to find some solutions.
One idea for example is to identify victims in emergency rooms. Mackay (2008) writes about such screenings in the context of Canada. Yet, this is generally practiced in all emergency
rooms in the United States of America. Personnel are on the lookout for inexplicable bruises. While this is the case today, the history of this subject suggests that without many
feminist activists throughout the United States long history, there would be scant attention to such matters. Again, it is no longer just a womens issue. Still, it seems as if
activism on behalf of women has created resources for all battered individuals and prompted laws to protect the victims of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a problem that does in
fact affect all people from all walks of life ("Fact Sheet: Preventing Domestic Violence," 2003). In fact, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, there were close to 700,000
documented cases of domestic violence in 2001 ("Fact Sheet: Preventing Domestic Violence," 2003). In New York State, for example, it is reported that more than 50 thousand cases of
domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is domestic violence exactly? What does it do to its victims? Domestic violence has four dimensions (Womenspace,
1998 as cited in Chronister & McWhirter, 2003). They are physical, emotional, sexual and economic (Womenspace, 1998 as cited in Chronister & McWhirter, 2003). Sometimes, abusers isolate women so that
they are cut off from their communities (Chronister & McWhirter, 2003). This suggests problems in terms of economic and social variables. Women cannot get jobs or make friends because their
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