Playing Politics with Firearms and Family Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 246-271
Author(s):  
Jane K. Stoever
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Gender Identities

This chapter frames the discussion of the politics of firearms with an exploration of the gendered nature of domestic violence, firearm fatalities, and the firearms debate, including how women are portrayed and the gender identities of the most prominent voices for “gun rights” and gun control. Given the stark and brutal realities of firearms and family violence, politicians across the ideological spectrum should readily agree that people who violently attack or threaten family members should be subject to practical and measured restrictions on their access to firearms. Unfortunately, safety as related to firearms and family violence has become highly politicized. This chapter identifies measure that states can enact to address the loopholes that allow domestic abusers to acquire firearms even after they have been convicted of felony abuse, often to deadly effect.

scholarly journals IDENTIFIKASI FAKTOR-FAKTOR PEMICU KEKERASAN DALAM RUMAH TANGGA DI KOTA DENPASAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
LAILY A.A. ARIFIANTI ◽  
KETUT JAYANEGARA ◽  
G.K. GANDHIADI ◽  
EKA N. KENCANA
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Domestic Setting ◽  
Variance Explained

Family or domestic violence is meant as a pattern of someone behavior that abuse his/or her power against another member(s) in a family or domestic setting. Knowing the underlying factors that trigger family violence are important to keep family members form a harmonious relationship. This work is aimed to elaborate those factors. By analyzing primary data from 120 respondents whom witness and well informed about family violence in their neighborhoods, factor analyzes is applied. Data are collected by using tested questionnaires. The results showed they were six underlying factors for family violence with total accounted for all factors were 65.19 percent.  Those factors are (a) social relationship, (b) job description, (c) past experience, (d) supporting factor, (e) economics’ status, and (f) harmonious relationship level. From these factors, social relationship dominates the others with variance explained for family violence as much as 21.39 percent.

scholarly journals Associations between sexual violence, domestic violence, neglect, and alcohol consumption among Lahu hill tribe families in northern Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 174550652110658
Author(s):  
Prapamon Seeprasert ◽  
Ratipark Tamornpark ◽  
Tawatchai Apidechkul ◽  
Nicharuch Panjaphothiwat ◽  
Onnalin Singkhorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
P Value ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
Hill Tribe ◽  
Validated Questionnaire

Background: Domestic violence is one of the largest silent problems in the world. Women, children, and elderly individuals often fall victims to family members who use alcohol. However, there is lack of scientific evidence on alcohol consumption and domestic violence among Lahu hill tribe families. Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of family violence, violence against women, and alcohol-related harm to children and elderly individuals and to determine the correlations between alcohol consumption and family violence among Lahu tribe families in northern Thailand. Method: A cross-sectional study was applied to collect data from participants living in 10 randomly selected villages from the list of Lahu villages in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. A validated questionnaire and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test were used to collect information from the participants in private and confidential rooms at a community hall between March and August 2019. Data were described and tested for correlation at the significance levels of α = 0.05 and 0.01. Findings: A total of 350 of 719 recruited Lahu families participated in the study (response rate = 48.7%). Among female participants, 22.3% reported history of sexual harassment and 4.1% had been forced to have sex. Children and elderly individuals reported several experiences with people who had used alcohol in the past year; 6.4% had been left to live alone, 5.0% experienced financial neglect, and 1.8% had been neglected while sick. In a correlation analysis, it was found that age (r = –0.02, p value < 0.009), education (r = 0.15, p value < 0.047), marital status (r = 0.25, p value < 0.001), and religion (r = 0.20, p value < 0.008) were significantly correlated with verbal arguments among family members. Experience of sexual harassment was correlated with the presence of a drinker in the family (r = 0.22, p value < 0.001). Conclusion: Government and relevant agencies should cooperate to reduce the consumption of alcohol among Lahu men. Moreover, a specific training program to personally improve one’s skill in responding to domestic violence among children, women, and elderly individuals should also be developed and implemented in Lahu communities.

Murmurations: Scale-Free Correlation and Atmospheric Attunement in Families Organizing around Domestic Violence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstin Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Human Family

Abstract This essay seeks to complicate seemingly rigid notions of instinct, agency, and survival for proximate bodies resisting violence through cooperative spatial attunement. I place the behaviors and movements of murmurating starlings (and other nonhuman animal beings in various states of fear/pain) alongside human family members in families organizing around domestic violence in order to theorize predation-evasion-induced scale-free correlation (PEISFC) as a trans-species process of “atmospheric attunement” that resists violence.

scholarly journals AS FORMAS DE VIOLÊNCIA À MULHER SOB A PROTEÇÃO DA LEI N° 11.340/06 (LEI MARIA DA PENHA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (Especial 2) ◽  
pp. 858-861
Author(s):  
Tainara Andrea de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women

This article seeks to present and understand, in light of Law 11.340 / 06, this known as the Maria da Penha law, we will see in article seventh, the types of domestic violence against women, listed in its paragraphs, as well as the general considerations about such types of violence. The method used was the legal deductive, applying the interpretation of the legislation and doctrine. It is concluded that the main objective of this article is to demonstrate the forms of domestic and family violence against women, which are physical, psychological, sexual, property and moral violence.

scholarly journals Protección a personas víctimas de violencia familiar en época de pandemia

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-80
Author(s):  
María Elena Orta García
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Confined Spaces ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Educational Paradigms

On March 20, 2020, the Mexican health authorities decreed mandatory confinement, as one of the measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy slowed down the contagion a bit, but it exposed the reality of family violence that has been present in our country for many years, alarmingly aggravated by economic pressure; the permanence of family members in confined spaces, for a long time; and the improvisation of areas for minors and adolescents to join remote education. Such circumstances caused chaos among family members, and the consequent repeated violation of the human rights of women, minors and the elderly. The situation generated by the pandemic has led to a review of the national, and international legal obligations contracted by the Mexican authorities, to guarantee the full exercise of the human rights of those who make up the families and avoid fatal consequences for their personal integrity. Various national and international institutions and organizations have documented the increase in family violence during the pandemic, and their results show the need to create public policies aimed at stopping this dizzying race, which threatens the dignity of people, and makes it urgent to grant protection adequate to the victims of this violence, which will only be achieved with a change in the cultural and educational paradigms of those who make up the different societies.

scholarly journals DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MEDIATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
Gavril Paraschiv ◽  
Ramona Gabriela Paraschiv
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Efficient Method

The procedure of mediation is an efficient method of amiably solving the differences,also used in the litigations regarding family violence, as it offers the party the possibility ofsolving the conflicts in a confidential framework, appropriate for eliminating the tensionsaccumulated and avoiding the asperities specific to legal trials.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON THE LIVES OF WOMEN

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-145
Author(s):  
Ritu Chandra ◽  
Anju Tyagi ◽  
Sumin Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lack Of Sleep

Domestic violence is one of the forms of abuse which is often being executed against women within four walls of the family house.The incidence of violence against women within and outside family has an alarming increase from the last some decades.Domestic violence badly impacts on the health and lives of women victims and they suffered with lack of sleep;depression;frustration, stress,worry and lower self esteem and it also effects on family life and emerge conflicts, misunderstandings, loss of trust, communication gaps, quarrels/fights among family members which often spoils the cordial relationships among the members of the family

Intention to Formally Report Family Violence in South Korea: Based on Black’s Theory of Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Sihyun Park ◽  
Sin-Hyang Kim
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Theory Of Law

Generally, filing a formal report of family violence is considered a difficult task, although it is the main source from which police can take action. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors predicting the intention to formally report family violence in South Korea, based on Black’s theory of law. The data were drawn from the National Survey of Domestic Violence, collected from a representative sample of 5777 members of the South Korean population. The results indicated that people generally showed a greater intention to report violence that they witnessed in other families as opposed to their own family. Perceived gender roles and information about institutions where individuals might seek help for family violence were the strongest negative and positive predictors of the intention to report, respectively. The findings can be used as evidence when developing public education and practical guidelines to promote official reporting of family violence.

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