DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS

Domestic Violence among African Americans

Domestic Violence among African Americans

Introduction

Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in which a person uses coercion, deception, harassment, humiliation, manipulation, and / or force to establish or maintain power and control over their partner. Economic, emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, verbal and tactics are used by authors to control and gain power over their partners. (McDonald, 2006)

Statement of Problem

Domestic violence crosses ethnic, age, race, national origin, sexual orientation, religious and socioeconomic lines. Most victims of domestic violence in heterosexual relationships are women. One of every three adult women experiences at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood.

Background

In recent years, the definition of domestic violence has expanded to include other forms of violence such as abuse of the elderly, children and siblings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has redefined the term "domestic violence" and use the better, more specific "intimate partner violence (IPV), including violence between same-sex couples and male victims of violence.3 In this document, the term domestic violence is used interchangeably with the term intimate partner violence. African-Americans are victims of domestic violence at a high rate compared to their numerical representation in the population. (McDonald, 2006 )

Position Statement

Although domestic and sexual violence occurs in all socioeconomic classes, socio-economic disadvantage increases the risk of the incidence of violent crime. In cases of intimate partner violence in the assault of a spouse, the balance of energy is an important risk factor. Among the cases of domestic violence, husbands who have (or feel they have) less power than their wives are physically abusive toward them, because of the perceived lack of power in other areas of your lives.4 This work will focus on privacy issues partner violence for African American women in heterosexual relationships. Domestic violence in the African American community Domestic Violence Violence made for people of color are allowed! (Strausm, 1994)

The most authoritative form of violence in communities of color is that against women of color, people of color (or white men) to women of color are relationships.5 rates of family violence been found to be higher for African American families than for any other racial group. In the United States, there is a high correlation between homicide rates and being poor and Black. 6 A key element in the high homicide rate within the family in the African American community is the negative relationship between them and the criminal justice system. The historical record of how African Americans have been treated in the United States judicial system is a fundamental problem when it comes to domestic violence in the African American community. Racism is well documented that race is a factor that may be involved in situations of intimate partner violence. However, racism plays a role in: 1) lack of access to resources to help African-Americans (and other people of color) in their rehabilitation by VCI, and 2) how victims and perpetrators are African American treated and perceived by the criminal justice ...