BATTERED WOMEN

Battered women who kill their abusers

Battered women who kill their abusers

Introduction

Domestic violence (DV) is currently an acute public health concern. A national survey in the United States reported that one-fifth of women in the study were victims of DV. Of those victims, about 40% were injured and, 30% of those injured received medical attention. Although DV is a serious social problem in the United States, it historically received scant public attention and was viewed as a private, family matter. DV has only more recently become known as a public problem in the United States, and there are now many services and supports for survivors of DV, particularly for those actively choosing to seek help. In a DV situation, the decision to seek help from the police is often the most critical moment in a battered woman's help seeking. Battered women may call the police when they urgently need help for their own safety, as well as for the safety of their family members. In the literature, of DV, the understanding of what motivates battered women to seek help from the police is still limited. This study examines the characteristics of battered women who involve the police. In particular, this study explores the role of a battered woman's functionality after a DV incident on the woman's involvement with the police (Gordon, 2010).

Battered Women

With regard to socio-demographic factors, battered women are more likely to call the police if they are unmarried and nonwhite, have less education, and have lower incomes. It is estimated that 95% of domestic assault victims are women. According to the United Nations Fund for Women, one in four women, in the world, suffer domestic abuse, leading to the staggering figure that at least 300 million women worldwide suffer from some form of abuse occurs every fifteen seconds a domestic violence case somewhere in the world. This is shocking considering that only 10% of victims report the problem. It is estimated that six out of ten couples experience some picture of domestic violence. The existence and the pattern of violence do not recognize cultural or economic boundaries (Walker, 2007).

The problem

The devaluation of women with the aggressor attempts to maintain its image at the expense of the subjugation of women explains the difficulty in breaking the relationship. Psychological violence also has given us a new vision of a human being and their psychological needs. We now know that there is another violence that also hurts people, psychological or verbal violence. Destroy a person's self-esteem systematically through criticism, contempt, neglect or abuse, are also forms of violence. The victims of such violence often continue to suffer quietly and why not get the help they need. A person hit in your body can show the wounds and help. Moreover, usually verbal or psychological violence precedes the physical. When a woman is coerced into an abortion (which is also violence against an innocent unborn), use contraception and abortion dangerous or harmful sterilization is practiced, all of these are also acts of ...