Crystal Hamilton Black Women Analysis

Abuse comes in many forms, but one of the most concerning and violent of abuses is domestic and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV). Jennifer R. Farmer’s Huffington Post article “Crystal Hamilton, Black Women and Domestic Violence,” is an article written to give a voice to an issue that many choose to keep quiet. Domestic violence affects up to 1.3 million individuals a year nationally (Farmer) but is one of the most scarcely reported; for women of color, low economic standing and sex trade work, the rate of abuse reporting is even lower than that of the majority. Domestic violence against women is rooted in both the micro as well as macro level with the levels being distinguishable from one another due to their differing perspectives
Crystal Sheree Hamilton was a 29-year old mother, wife, daughter and victim of domestic abuse. On February 27, 2016 in Prince William County, Northern Virginia, Crystal was shot …show more content…
Although it is important to recognize the ultimate sacrifice made by this officer, the limited coverage of Crystal and her story only perpetuates the lack of attention and intervention surrounding domestic and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV). Domestic violence affects up to 1.3 million individuals a year nationally, with 85 percent of those individuals being women (Farmer). Black women are seen as being particularly vulnerable to abusive relationships being three times as likely to experience death from domestic violence (Farmer); a study by Bureau of Justice statistician Callie Marie Rennison found that black women between the ages of 20-24 experience more intimate violence than their white counterparts (Kirk, Okazawa-Rey 264). One of the leading causes of death for black women between the ages of 15 to 35 is domestic and intimate partner violence, black women make up 8 percent of the population but