OPINION PIECE Last month, my grandmother was travelling by train on the way home after meeting up with a group of friends. That day, though, will be a day that will traumatise her up to this present day. As she was standing up from her seat, a man assaulted her; he shoved her onto the floor, bit her and kicked her. Now, whilst her trembling bruised body will gradually relearn to sit up and her swollen face will learn to eat normal food again, she cannot shake away the memories from that day.…
Violence, an integral part of modern society, constitutes the lives of individuals that lead to reactions in the sociological perspective. In terms of sociology, violence grasps the control one’s realities. Sociological impact of violence is so intertwined with side factors that individual get derailed in conducts transforming personalities, emotions, thoughts, world views. This study deals with violence in the sociological view and its implications as depicted in Conrad’s The Secret Agent.…
Violence can be described as the intent to hurt or damage something or someone, which can be done in a number of ways. The group of writings that I chose was under the title of “Cultures of Violence”, and I believe that this heading efficaciously describes the two essays within it. On War by James Boswell, and The Paranoid Style of American Policing by Ta-Nehisi Coates, each tell their thoughts on violence and how they view it within different areas of today’s society. However, I feel that On…
Dynamics of Domestic Violence Domestic violence, also know as intimate partner violence, includes physical, psychological, and financial harm caused in an intimate partnership (Wallace & Roberson, 2015). The Clifford Burns case is a tragic example of domestic violence and demonstrates Lenore Walker’s cycle theory of violence. The theory attempts to explain the pattern of abuse involved in domestic violence (Wallace & Roberson, 2015). According to Wallace and Roberson (2014), there are three…
violence in Australia, I found some shocking statistics. Results from the Australian Statistics on Domestic Violence find that: 23% of women who had ever been married or in a de-facto relationship, experienced violence by a partner at some time during the relationship 42% of women who had been in a previous relationship reported violence by a previous partner 35% of women who experienced violence from their partner during periods of separation (ABS 1996, p. 57). One recent New South Wales…
Summary This study seeks to investigate instances of family violence against women in rural East Central Saskatchewan, Canada and to assess need for services and support. The researchers claim that violence in this region is suffered in significant numbers and draw attention to the fact that rural living isolates women from support services such as social services and counseling. The article attributes many women staying in abusive situations for years to lack of access to these services,…
disagree with some of the claims she makes, there are also a few points that we have in common. In the beginning of her article she states, “Men are absolutely frequent victims of domestic violence. Men are the victims of violence more often than women (¶ 3).” This statement is true when we are viewing a simple domestic violence case. Men may often engage in a brawl or heated argument with another man because it is just the nature of a man. Then she goes on to say that, “there are men who suffer…
statistics and studies draw on the claim that rape and sexual assault are psychologically tormenting experiences that will impact the victim’s life forever. The mental health impact of sexual trauma is undoubtedly a serious public health problem for women. Hopefully, with all the research that has been found, anyone who experiences the emotional aftermath of sexual trauma can recover in a way…
likely to be brutalized by the offender,” said, London J. Koenig and S. Levine in their 1983 interview titled: “Why men rape: interviews with convicted rapists. Koenig and Levine further legitimizes Danticat’s ongoing portrayal of violence against women and…
Mum with a Secret ‘When Mom Has a Secret’ is a long, but detailed, article by an American journalist and correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Tara Mckelvey. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. Mckelvey’s article angles the key events that bring up the past of the iconic terrorist group, SLA. The manifesto Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American made radical active group between 1973 and 1975 who considered…