Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Summary of Families and Households - Couples-Domestic violence (AS, A-level, and GCSE)
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Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Domestic violence-Sociologist list
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Heheh-Sociologist Heheh-Important information
Introduction to Domestic violence(statistics included)
● Home office(2013) definition of domestic violence
- ‘Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling coercive or threatening
behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have
been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality’
● Statistics on domestic violence
- Women’s aid federation(2014)→ Domestic violence accounts for between a
sixth and a quarter of recorded violent crime(domestic violence is too
widespread)
- Crime Survey for England and Wales(2013)→two million reports recorded
of domestic abuse
- Crime survey for England and Wales(2013)→relatively narrow gender
gap→7.3% of women(1.2 million) compared to 5% of men(800,000)
reported having experienced domestic abuse in the previous year
● Kathy Koleman et al(2007)
- Women were more likely to experience ‘intimate violence’ across all four
types of abuse→partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking
● Coleman and Osborne(2010)
- Two women a week(⅓ of all female homicide victims) are killed by a partner
or former partner
● Dobash and Dobash(1979;2007)
- Radical feminists
- Conducted research in Scotland→based on police court recordings and
interviews with women who were staying in refuges
- Stated that they have been slapped, pushed, raped, beaten or killed by their
husbands
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