Stalking

“Domestic Violence: A pattern of coercive and controlling behaviors and tactics by one person to gain power and control over a partne.”(Halket 29:35) “In 2000 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.”(Amercian Bar 1) Popular R&B singer Jazmin Sullivan has a song called, “Call Me Guilty.” In the song she phones her mother to let her know that she is going to kill her abusive spouse. A line that particularly stands out to me is, “I suppose that I could leave, knowing I can’t…

Domestic Violence represents a social problem which impacts people's lives in New Zealand. According to Are You Ok organisation (2014) about half of the homicides in New Zealand are committed by a person known to family. On average, family violence occurs every half and 5 minutes, and about 76% of it was not reported to police. Official crime statistics shows that from 2009 to 2013 a total of 13 women, 10 men and 9 children were killed each year as a result of such pervasive crime.…

Civil protection orders is usually obtained when an individual would like to seek for a restraining order against an individual who puts in danger or inflicts fear over another person. The civil protection order is given to individuals who report a serious incident to the police. Victims of domestic violence usually seek for protections against perpetrators of violence who continuously look for a way to inflict physical or emotional pain. Moreover, this type of protection place physical and any…

In 2015, there were 6,822 receipts filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This number is only the number of times that a charge was filed, this does not take into account how many times someone was sexually harassed and did not report it. Sexual harassment is defined as, “conduct typically experienced as offensive in nature, in which unwanted sexual advances are made in the context of a relationship of unequal power or authority” (Kane-Urrabazo p. 609). There are two main…

How television soap drama uses media to deliver real life issues to the audience? How do they target a specific type of audience or can everyone relate to it. This essay is going to explain how Hollyoaks (soap drama) reflects on real life issues. As an example, in Hollyoaks they have an actors playing a serial killer that is being searched by the police, this was filmed to show to the audience that these things really happen in real life. This could refer to when woman’s are abused and killed in…

In February 2013, Zoe Quinn, an independent game developer, releases Depression Quest, a browser game, and received positive feedback in the gaming industry. Unfortunately, backlash came from a group of individuals who believed that the new title received undeserved attention. By August 2014, Quinn became the target of increasing harassment that soon became something she could not ignore, especially with her ex-boyfriend posting a blog post suggesting that she was dating Nathan Grayson, a…

The Equality of Women and Men People are equal to a certain degree. Individuals are not one hundred percent equal to one another. For example, all citizens of the United States of America are granted protection, but females are more protected. Women are more protected than males because society sees them as fragile beings that are always the victims to many cases involving assault. Many of these cases revolve around domestic violence. Because a large amount of women have been victimized in…

Both men and women suffer greatly from abuse whether it be verbal, emotional, physical or financial abuse. Intimate partner violence is usually referred to as domestic violence, which is a real world problem since the dawn of time. When abuse is spoken of usually the first gender to come into someone’s mind is a female and not a male, but in all reality anyone can be a victim of abuse. Battered men and/or women are beings who feel that they are in danger or are in a life threatening situation…

The evolution of domestic violence The beginning of domestic violence can be outlined with a simple law that was in practice many years ago. Professor Lemon (1996) who has worked in the field of domestic violence since the early 1970’s explains how thousands of years ago women fell victim to the abuse of a man, their ruler, who used beatings as a form of punishment for crimes committed by women. Lemon wrote about the history of “The rule of thumb” which was an actual law that allowed men to…

On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than ten million women and men. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime. These statistics do not account for the other types of domestic violence including emotional and economical abuse.(ncadv.org) Between 21-60% of victims of intimate partner violence lose their jobs…