Domestic violence usually results from the need of the perpetrator to dominate and control those with close relationships to him or her. Domestic violence can take the form of physical, emotional or sexual abuse. Usually, incidents of domestic violence are reported to be higher in females than in males. Examples of domestic violence can range from a husband hitting his wife, a parent hitting a child, sexually assaulting a partner or child, sibling in-fighting and so on. The reason for abuse may be because abusers may feel the need to dominate in the relationship because of low self-esteem, envy and jealousy, anger management issues and other powerful negative emotions, or feel inferior in aspects of education and socio-economic status. There
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Not only that, domestic violence might also be a combination of situational and individual aspects, whereby an individual might learn violent behaviour from their family, community or culture if it was common enough. They then practice this aggresive behaviour with their close ones in the future, having grown up believing it to be a norm when raising a family. Not surprisingly, some victims of domestic violence have a likelihood of becoming abusers themselves.
Theory
An evident theory that can be used in the case of aggression in domestic violence would be Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. whereby aggression is not an innate drive, instead learned by directly experiencing it or observing other people actions, accentuating external causes rather than internal causes. Thus leading to a concept known as modelling, whereby people observe and replicate the behaviour of others. To demonstrate this in the context of aggression, Albert Bandura organised the Bobo doll experiment whereby preschool children watched either an aggressive or non-aggressive adult role model or even neither. In the experiment room, there was non-violent toys, potato prints, a mallet as well as the Bobo doll. For the aggressive …show more content…
A meta-analytic review of 130 studies show that alcohol correlates with violent crimes and domestic abuse. Numerous explanations can be given about how alcohol increases aggression. One is that alcohol reduces an individual’s inhibitions to resist aggressive behaviour which is usually strong. As self control is already not an easy task and requires a lot of energy, large amounts of glucose. When alcohol reduces the glucose level in the body and brain, it disrupts many types of self-control, such as motor operations, verbal speech as well as self-constraint of aggressive behaviour. Alcohol also reduces serotonin levels, the feel good neurotransmitter. When levels are low or not enough, chances of aggression increases. But there also some who use alcohol as excuse, to shy away from being responsible for their actions and so called ‘placing the blame on the bottle’. “Substance use has a role as a time out from responsibility during which the user can engage in exceptional behavior and later disavow the behavior as caused by the substance rather than the self “.(MacAndrew & Edgerton, 1969). A third explanation is where alcohol is said to disrupt the executive functions, the cognitive ability to perceive, organise and process information. And lastly, it also decreases self-awareness, whereby the person has his attention
Not only that, domestic violence might also be a combination of situational and individual aspects, whereby an individual might learn violent behaviour from their family, community or culture if it was common enough. They then practice this aggresive behaviour with their close ones in the future, having grown up believing it to be a norm when raising a family. Not surprisingly, some victims of domestic violence have a likelihood of becoming abusers themselves.
Theory
An evident theory that can be used in the case of aggression in domestic violence would be Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. whereby aggression is not an innate drive, instead learned by directly experiencing it or observing other people actions, accentuating external causes rather than internal causes. Thus leading to a concept known as modelling, whereby people observe and replicate the behaviour of others. To demonstrate this in the context of aggression, Albert Bandura organised the Bobo doll experiment whereby preschool children watched either an aggressive or non-aggressive adult role model or even neither. In the experiment room, there was non-violent toys, potato prints, a mallet as well as the Bobo doll. For the aggressive …show more content…
A meta-analytic review of 130 studies show that alcohol correlates with violent crimes and domestic abuse. Numerous explanations can be given about how alcohol increases aggression. One is that alcohol reduces an individual’s inhibitions to resist aggressive behaviour which is usually strong. As self control is already not an easy task and requires a lot of energy, large amounts of glucose. When alcohol reduces the glucose level in the body and brain, it disrupts many types of self-control, such as motor operations, verbal speech as well as self-constraint of aggressive behaviour. Alcohol also reduces serotonin levels, the feel good neurotransmitter. When levels are low or not enough, chances of aggression increases. But there also some who use alcohol as excuse, to shy away from being responsible for their actions and so called ‘placing the blame on the bottle’. “Substance use has a role as a time out from responsibility during which the user can engage in exceptional behavior and later disavow the behavior as caused by the substance rather than the self “.(MacAndrew & Edgerton, 1969). A third explanation is where alcohol is said to disrupt the executive functions, the cognitive ability to perceive, organise and process information. And lastly, it also decreases self-awareness, whereby the person has his attention