Domestic Violence Sociology

Domestic violence is a crime of either passion or violence which should never be tolerated by anybody if at all the society is to be made safe enough for people to live in. Domestic violence can be defined as any threatening, abusive, or violent behavior in the home either between adult children and other adult family members (Gibbons, 2011). It can also be used by one intimate partner to establish power and control over the other partner through fear and intimidation. Domestic violence can happen anywhere to anyone of any race, religion, culture, or economic status. It can occur in any relationship, including heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender and also within extended families (Women’s Aid 2010). It affects both partners, …show more content…
Issues such as identity, power, social capital and equalities/inequalities are discussed, and citizen-orientated interventions in international social work are suggested. In particular culture is seen to play a great role in sexual violence in that the cultural norms that devalue women can combine with norms that value male dominance and aggressiveness to create a subculture that sanctions sexual violence. This fosters sexual violence which is likely to occur more commonly in cultures that foster beliefs of perceived male superiority and social and cultural inferiority of women therefore attaching less value to women (Parcesepe & Martin, 2013). Men tend to take this as an added advantage to do whatever they think because they can easily get away with it. In addition to violence, the incident of sexual violence involves elements of control, power, domination, and humiliation. Global Health and Health Equity Forum underscores the importance of recognizing violence as a public health issue that requires immediate and meaningful communal and structural investment to break its historic cycles. This has been realized by developing safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and their parents and caregivers, developing life skills and relationship skills in children and adolescents; for example, programs designed to help children and adolescents manage anger, resolve conflicts in a non-violent way and develop social problem-solving skills and comprehensive intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention interventions to reduce IPV perpetration and victimization among adolescents, promoting gender equality to prevent and reduce changing cultural and social norms that normalize and support violence and victim identification, care and support programs. All these efforts

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