One noticeable and unfortunate trait prevalent with victims is that they tend to flee from their familiar surroundings when distressing personal issues arise. For instance, women are often strongly encouraged to “run away” from home when they are being battered. Granted escaping abuse is necessary, it should never be at the cost of the victim losing her home, job, friend, and family. When a woman leaves her community, she is leaving her contacts, doctors, children’s school and so much more. Communities suffer due to reinforcement of being so disadvantaged, that they are not worth improving their responses to victims. Under the old model, perpetrators of violence are both locked up and avoided, or they receive limited treatment and later released
