Progression in the Treatment of Victims of Domestic Violence

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Progression in the Treatment of Victims of Domestic Violence

With Police, Prosecutors, & Judges

Introduction

Domestic violence is, in a pair, the violence exerted by one partner on his or her spouse or by the family in direct relationship. It may be a circumstantial phenomenon (situational violence), but also sometimes a systemic and evolutionary process (domestic terrorism) in which a partner engages, as part of a special relationship that s domination expresses by physical, economic or spiritual abuse psychological, sexual. Domestic violence has deleterious consequences for the victims and for any children of the couple. This is one of the major risk factors for the health of women aged 19-44 years in the world (Abbott et.al, 2011, pp. 1763-1767).

Discussion

Domestic violence differs from marital conflict in difficulty. According to Professor Henrion for the Department of Health (France, 2001) may take the following forms:

Physical violence: beatings, mutilations, murders, etc.

Sexual violence: rape, sexual assault, pimping

Verbal abuse and psychological: blackmail, insults, humiliation / devaluation, threats (e.g. against members of the family.), pressure, jealousy excessive, etc.

Deprivation and constraints theft, destruction of property, stress (confinement, kidnapping, etc.), Deprivation of autonomy (confiscation of income, vehicle), willingness to alienation (economic alienation, administrative), etc (Sherman, 2013).

Violence against spouse is complex and ambivalent situation because the relationship between men and women is a contradiction: on the one hand of tension, distance and hostility on the other attraction, love and affection.

Most attackers may be people with needs who can love and be loved, and they resort to violence to get their way with their partners and gain control over them. Violence has towards his wife may be triggered in several ways: physical, emotional, verbal, sexual and economic.

Behaviors include threats, verbal and physical humiliation, surveillance, harassment, restriction measures, social isolation, preventing control over economic resources , throwing things, rape or sexual assault, various physical injuries, and sometimes attempted murder and murder (Abbott et.al, 2011, pp. 1763-1767).

Many women remain in violent double due to economic dependence and significant emotional abusive man, and the lack of mechanisms to support and help (minority women's shelters and rehabilitation programs). Requirement for separation or escape attempts often lead to more violence from their partner and real threats on the lives of women (Sherman, 2013).

Physical Violence

Many women and girls are in relationships with partners who abuse them usually in physical form, but also verbal, sexual, or emotional.

One example of physical violence is “violence Gestational” violence against the woman during pregnancy resulting often from envy partner in passing and in order to hurt him. Other extreme examples are murder or attempted murder (Sherman, 2013).

Psychological Violence

Emotional abuse includes humiliation, threats, verbal abuse and social isolation. Although these behaviors in themselves do not leave physical marks, they may lead to situations of anxiety about the possibility to realize the threats.

Humiliation, blame and criticism can significantly impact on self-image and self-esteem of a woman and a sense of self-efficacy her. Emotional violence can be expressed often long ...