domestic violence

(noun)

Violence against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.

Related Terms

  • infidelity
  • Midlife Crisis
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Economic Abuse

Examples of domestic violence in the following topics:

  • Spousal Abuse

    • The relationship between gender and domestic violence is a controversial topic.
    • Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
    • Determining how many instances of domestic violence actually involve male victims is difficult.
    • Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.
    • Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.
  • Family Violence

    • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
    • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
    • These are known as the psychological effects of domestic violence.
    • These are the financial effects of domestic violence.
    • Discuss the various types of domestic violence, such as physical or economic, as well as the effects on all people involved
  • Factors Associated with Divorce

    • Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
    • While not conclusive, the predominate factors that lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions such as alcoholism and gambling.
    • Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
  • Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

    • Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.
    • Although the exact rates are widely disputed, there is a large body of cross-cultural evidence that women are subjected to domestic violence significantly more often than men.
    • The United Nations recognizes domestic violence as a form of gender-based violence, which it describes as a human rights violation and a result of sexism.
    • Transgender people regularly face transphobic harassment and violence.
    • Transgender people are much more likely to experience harassment, bullying, and violence based on their gender identity; they also experience much higher rates of discrimination in housing, employment, healthcare, and education (National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2010).
  • Gender Discrimination

    • Violence against women, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and sexual slavery, remains a serious problem around the world.
  • Violence in Schools

    • School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
    • This refers to violence between students as well as physical attacks by students on school staff.
    • In part, violence receives more attention because it draws media coverage.
    • A home environment may contribute to school violence if, at home, students are exposed to gun violence, parental alcoholism, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or harsh parental discipline.
    • Recall the risk factors for school violence in the U:S. and the two types of bullying
  • Labor and Domestic Tensions

    • Hayes used federal troops to quell the organized violence.
    • The Knights avoided violence but their reputation collapsed in the wake of the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago in 1886, when anarchists bombed the policemen dispersing a meeting.
  • 100 Days of Violence

  • Global Crime

    • In order to achieve their goals, these criminal groups utilize systematic violence and corruption.
    • Transnational organized crimes result in interrupting peace and stability of nations worldwide, often using bribery, violence or terror to meet their needs.
    • These include the creation of domestic criminal offences to combat the problem, and the adoption of new, sweeping frameworks for mutual legal assistance, extradition, law-enforcement cooperation and technical assistance and training.
  • Slavery and Politics

    • Jeffersonians resisted antislavery and abolition vigorously, pointing to the violence of the revolution in Haiti as justification for keeping Africans enslaved in the United States.
    • Jefferson shared planters' fears that the success of the rebellion in Haiti would encourage similar slave rebellions and widespread violence in the South.
    • With the growth of the domestic slave population contributing to the development of a large internal slave trade, slaveholders did not mount much resistance to the new law.
    • Most slave owners also believed that a domestic slave population was less dangerous than an imported one; captured Africans appeared more openly rebellious than African Americans who were born in American bondage and molded from birth in the Southern plantation slave system.
    • During the next few decades, as vast new lands in the Southwest were developed for the farming of short-staple cotton (a commodity made viable by the invention of the cotton gin), the demand for—and value of—domestic slaves in the United States increased.
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