Exploratory Essay On Domestic Violence

Domestic violence has always been a big issue in all societies. Despite being the most highlighted problem, more than half of the cases with domestic violence go unreported. In order to reduce this type of crimes and increase the ratio of reporting the crime by victims, mandatory arrest laws have been introduced in the legal system. According to this law, it is compulsory for police to arrest the accused without any kind of warrant. Over the past thirty years, these warrantless powers of officers have been increased greatly. The idea behind this law was that women, who are afraid of their voice go unheard, have the courage to speak for her rights and against the violence by their intimate partner mostly. When someone reports now about the aggression and violence, police arrests them …show more content…
The police have to respond all calls for help and without determining that the accused was actually violent or not, they need to make the arrest. Most of the time police arrest both the victim and the accused so as to investigate later about the situation created. This law is all about women empowerment as the abusers think twice before being violent. They know that one phone call would be enough to put them behind the bars. In misdemeanor cases, the mandatory arrests have lowered the rate of violence. Those who were punished were least likely to abuse again.
But negativity comes with positivity. According to long research history, the individuals whose partners were arrested for abusing them, died earlier than other victims of violence whose partners were not arrested. Such individuals either live very poor life or become heart or cancer patients later on. The feeling of guilt can also depress them and affect their mental health also.
There are has been another criticism on mandatory arrest laws that such arrests do not leave any option for the partners to decide about their future themselves. It is more like a last resort for any