Matt Vack: Group Analysis

Choosing the leader was one of the most important processes in this project. The leader we chose for our group was Matt Vack. The first time meeting with the group we all talked about who wanted to be the leader and who should be the leader. We chose Matt because he felt comfortable leading us as a group and was confident about it, Matt also volunteered and said that he has no problem doing this. So then Matt was the chosen leader of this group for our project. Delegating the duties throughout the group was a group effort. We all agreed to meet on Tuesdays and Thursday to talk about the project and work on the project. At the end we would talk about what still needs to be worked on in order to have a productive session the next time we would …show more content…
We asked eleven questions in order to keep it short but long enough for us to the information we needed. The first question that was asked was if themselves or a family member ever been involved in a domestic violence, out of thirty people twenty-four of them said no and seven said yes. A follow up question if number one was answered with a yes if they felt comfortable was who the abuser was and who was abused. Out of the yes’s the dad or step dad was the abuser and the moms were the ones getting abused. We were shocked that some people would even tell us if they have ever had an encounter domestic violence. The answers we got were what we were expecting when asking who the abuser and victim was. The second question of our survey was do the people that were surveyed know who they can call other than the police to get help with domestic violence, nine said yes and twenty-one replied no. the third was what do people think are the top two causes of domestic violence, drugs/alcohol and family problems were the top two causes we got. Number four went with number three, for the people who did not say drugs and alcohol we asked if they thought it plays apart in domestic violence all of the people surveyed said yes except for one. This question was one we were expecting …show more content…
We chose Sgt. Wall because Matt, Jared, and Chris had heard him speak in some classes about his involvement with juveniles and his job. For that reason we thought he would have experience with domestic violence cases so he was asked if he was willing to be interviewed for the project and he agreed. To start off the interview we asked Sgt. Wall how the police department defines domestic violence, he stated that they define it by its battery but the victim has to have a relationship with the abuser in order for it to be a domestic violence. He then said something that was interesting and something we did not know, he told us that if a domestic violence happens three times it then the person charged with domestic violence can be charged with a felony. After this we asked him how many cases of domestic violence there was in Monroe County last year, he told us that they do not have it broke down by just domestic violence sense it is a type of battery, but there was 1,301 cases of battery last year in Monroe County. We continued by asking what he feels are the top causes of domestic violence and his answer was much different from the surveys. Sgt. Wall said it is about the upbringing that the people who were involved had and that if their mom or dad had the issue then their children were also more likely to have an issue in the future. After this question we asked him what is the