CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Criminal Domestic Violence

Criminal Domestic Violence

Introduction

In this paper, we will try to explain the impact that Criminal domestic violence has on the United States. In the United States, at the end of the millennium, domestic violence is an ever-growing practice that extends across all social classes. Criminal Domestic violence is a crime that impacts well beyond the victim, his/her family, and friends - it is a human rights issue that impacts our socio-economic structure.

Criminal Domestic violence - what is it?

Criminal Domestic violence is an abnormal, unacceptable behavior used by one person in a relationship to control the other (Gover & MacDonald, 2003). Partners may be married or not married; heterosexual, gay, or lesbian; living together, separated or dating. Sexual, emotional, and psychological intimidation is not uncommon. Criminal Domestic violence often includes homicide, assault, burglary, trespass, kidnapping, stalking, and many other criminal acts.

The problem of Criminal domestic violence has a growing importance in all contexts of culture and its solution requires multidisciplinary approaches and inter. The health perspective, public health, is one of the most important and should influence on the various phases of the natural history of the problem from prevention and detection to clinical treatment and rehabilitation of bio-psychosocial alterations it generates.

What is the history of Criminal domestic violence?

Historically, Criminal domestic violence had been viewed as a normal part of a marriage or intimate relationships. It was not until the 1970's that domestic violence was defined as a crime and justified for intervention by the criminal justice system (Sartin & Hansen, 2006).

What are the facts and statistics of Criminal domestic violence in the United States?

One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police making domestic violence one of the most chronically underreported crimes in the United States. Some of the facts on which domestic violence is done in US are:

Prevalence and Incidence

There are two ways to measure how common domestic violence is: incidence and prevalence. In the case of domestic violence, incidence is best thought of as the number of acts of domestic violence during a given time in a given population. Prevalence is best thought of as the proportion of a population that has experienced domestic violence in a specified time period. If every victim experienced only one act of domestic violence in a year, incidence and prevalence numbers would be the same for that year. However, typically incidence figures are higher than prevalence figures when based on the same data. These are typically calculated on an annual and lifetime basis, so both are presented here (Langhinrichsen, 2005).

Yearly national estimates of domestic violence are taken from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), an annual national survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2008, the NCVS estimated that there were 593,100 incidents (69,100 against men and 504,980 against women) of violent victimization by an intimate partner in the United States, which translates to an annual incidence rate ...