Stalking

History and Description of Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Violence against women has been a societal crisis for decades in the United States and worldwide. In the early 1990s, Congress began to acknowledge the seriousness of the crimes that were being committed against women. The Democratic and Republican parties collaborated to pass a federal law that would provide protection to women affected by domestic violence and physical and sexual assaults. The law would also provide services to…

Harassment is a crime that can range from minor to extreme. Harassment can be verbal, physical, emotional, stalking, or now, online. This crime is often under reported and statistics can be misleading. Victims of harassment vary from the unfazed to the severely traumatized. Courts can easily become overwhelmed and burdened with minor issues and harassment has typically been found to be a nuisance crime. However, the courts have recently began seeing harassment as a gateway crime to assaults…

signs, seek the immediate help of a qualified family law attorney to discuss your legal options. Your Spouse Is Seriously Annoying Or Harassing You If your estranged spouse is constantly leaving you angry messages, sending non-stop texts, or even stalking you, it is time to seek a spousal restraining order. You have the right to go about your life free of harassment, be it online or face-to-face. If your ex-partner won’t leave you alone, discuss with your lawyer the steps you can take to get…

Shoplifting Shoplifting is a type of larceny that refers to the theft of merchandise from a store or business (CBA, 2016). This crime costs, on average, $33.6 billion per year to US retailers, including both from customers stealing and employee theft (Schmalleger, 2015). Shoplifting is done primarily by juveniles (Schmalleger, 2015). In adults, shoplifting is typical among all social classes even though the most serious is found within the lowest class, however among juveniles the classes almost…

instant messaging as well. Other different types of cyber harassment are; hate speech, sexual or pornographic content, self-harm, identity theft, intellectual property theft, and lastly cyberbullying (Nobullying.com, 2015, para. 4) Cyber harassment and stalking rates have increased in the last decade and has had many negative effects on cyber victims. Back in 2005, NCH reported that 14% of 11-19 year olds had been threatened or harassed using text messaging (NCH, 2005, p.2) and O’Connell finding…

When it comes to crimes, there is always a criminal and there is a victim. The criminal if convicted is sent to jail and they have to serve out their sentence. But the victim, even though they may obtain justice, will still have to live with what has been done to them. And depending on how law enforcement treats the victim, it will either allow them to move past the violence of the crime, or to live in it every day because nothing was done to be able to move them forward. Because of the lack of…

Claudine Capistrano 2 December 2014 ENGWR302: Hutcheson 12-1:20PM Problem/Solution Essay Audience: Individuals concerned and willing to provide aid to victims of domestic violence Knowledge is Power The sounds of screaming and crying for help awaken the child from her slumber. Startled, the child makes her way over to her parents room seeking comfort, only to discover that was the source of the unpleasant noises. The child reluctantly opens the door. Terror-stricken, she watches as her father’s…

Through the reading of Galtung “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research” he explained the two concepts of structural and personal violence and how peace is considered to be absence of violence. Galtung explains the dimensions of the terms peace and violence and how they can affect the life of a person. Furthermore, he refuses the idea to view violence as the intentional harm done by an actor (object) to someone else (subject). However, he notes “violence is present when human beings are being…

Module six has helped me to understand more about the community responses to domestic violence, various types of violence and abuse, and to define and explain the dynamics and characteristics of stalking. Domestic violence can happened to anyone, but nobody should tolerate domestic violence. Most of the time the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied, therefore it is important for everyone to understand signs of domestic violence before the abuse gets worst. Some signs of domestic…

In North America it cannot be hidden that domestic violence is a problem both for men and women, though 95% of the victims of domestic abuse are women (Gordon, 1996). Between 21-34% of all women in North American have been victims of domestic violence in there lives (Gordon, 1996). Since the women 's movement, studies about women have greatly increased and have caused great achievement, but very few studies have looked at the abused women and the services that are offered to them. When Gordon…