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domestic violence Exam 2024/2025 Questions With Completed & Verified Solution
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domestic violenceHow many women are killed each week by a current or former partner? - ANS 2 women are
killed every week, 1 women killed every 3 days
How many men experience domestic violence in their lifetime? - ANS 1 in 6
Domestic violence accounts for ... percent of all reported crime, and who is this according to? -
ANS 15% - Women's Aid Federation
How many women experience domestic violence in their lifetime? - ANS 1 in 4
What is the Home Office's (2013) definition of domestic violence and abuse? - ANS Any incident
or pattern of incidents of controlling coercive or threatening behavior, violence or abuse between
those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of
gender or sexuality
Name two famous victims of domestic violence - ANS Pamela Anderson and Lorena Bobbit
According to the British crime survey (2013) what was found? - ANS Two million people have
reportedly been victims of domestic abuse during the previous year
What did Mirlees and Black find? - ANS - Most victims of DV are women
- 99% of all incidents against women are committed by men
What did Dobash and Dobash conduct a study on? And what research methods did they use? -
ANS They used interviews to research women who were in women's refuges in Scotland and
used police and court records (official documents) to research domestic violence
What did Dobash and Dobash find from their study? - ANS They sound that violent incidents
could be set off by what a husband saw as a challenge to his authority
What do Dobash and Dobash then argue? - ANS They argue that marriage legitimises violence
against women
What are criticisms of Dobash and Dobash's study? Who said it? - ANS The crime survey for
England and Wales 2013, found a relatively narrow gender gap, 7.3% of women compared with
5% of men reported having experienced DV
What do Walby and Allen (2004) say? - ANS Women were much more likely to be victims of
multiple incidents of abuse and sexual violence
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