Cultural Values and Domestic Violence

Author(s):  
Michael P. McGee
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca T. Villalobos ◽  
Marie Karlsson ◽  
Ana J. Bridges

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arieahn Matamonasa-Bennett

Domestic violence is a serious social problem in contemporary American Indian communities and research is critical to create and evaluate prevention and intervention strategies. This small qualitative study sought to discover the ways in which men from a single reservation community with histories of domestic violence define and perceive domestic violence within the cultural context. The narratives held themes of intergenerational family violence and dysfunction, alcoholism, racism, isolation, deep grief, and remorse. Each of the narratives also revealed themes of healing and hope through connecting with elders, learning spiritual traditions and strengthening cultural identity as a means for achieving sobriety and lives of nonviolence.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X1989887
Author(s):  
Adetutu Aragbuwa

The study performs a standard reading of online readers’ comments on Domestic Violence against Men (henceforth, DVAM). This is with a view to exploring how the readers’ comments develop dialogically to build up threads that depict salient motifs on DVAM in the Nigerian sociocultural domain. The specific objectives of the study are to identify the dialogic developments of threads among the commenters; construe motifs cum shared socio-cultural values in the identified threadal developments; and elicit the rhetorical implications of the threadal developments on the phenomenon of DVAM in Nigeria. The data comprise two purposively selected online news reports on DVAM with their readers' comments, sourced from the news archives of The News and Sahara Reporters. The study adopts the Dialogic Dual Reading Model as the analytical framework. The standard reading of the threadal developments of the readers’ comments in the two selected news reports reveals that a large number of the commenters maintain the ideological stance that DVAM is unjustifiable; some commenters, however, argue that acts of DVAM are often perpetrated in self-defense. This contrary ideological notion of self-defense not only portrays the women-offenders in these cases as victims but also justifies their acts of violence.


Author(s):  
Zeynep Turhan ◽  
Claudia Bernard

This article illustrates the first in-depth study on major conditions of engagement among Turkish men in interventions that work with perpetrators of domestic violence in England. It investigates how key circumstances related to Turkish men’s cultural backgrounds, migration status, racialisation and different interactions with facilitators shape their engagement in interventions. The data was collected from semi-structured interviews with Turkish perpetrators who participated in domestic violence interventions and professionals who worked with Turkish men in these interventions. Participants’ social and cultural background, class, gendered power relations and racialisation affected their active engagement in interventions. The insufficiency of trained interpreters and culturally-competent professionals, mistrust of the services and the social stressors about living in a society with different cultural values to their home country were identified as factors of inadequate engagement. We found that adopting culturally-sensitive strategies including professionals’ understanding of men’s social, cultural and religious backgrounds, and being aware of racism, discrimination and migration-related stressors were key in improving engagement during interventions.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Increasing community-based practices and culturally-competent approaches can promote the perpetrators’ engagement in interventions among Turkish groups in England.</li><br /><li>The inextricable connections among class, gender power relations and racialisation should be considered in understanding marginalised ethnic perpetrators’ engagement in interventions.</li></ul>


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoon Khan Khattak ◽  
Aamir Khan Bangash ◽  
Sabir Michael ◽  
Zubaida Khatoon Khattak

The women are affected by many forms of violence; most often inside the most secure environments i.e. of their own homes. Women are suffering in our societies due to socio-cultural values, misinterpretation of religious teachings, their subordinate status and lack of legal protection. The impacts of domestic violence go beyond the family and affect not only the victims but society as a whole. The basic purpose of this research was to know the views and experience of married women about psycho social impacts and forms of domestic violence on their status. Women crises center of District Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan was the universe of the study. The research sample was comprised of 30 married women. The data were collected through the interviews schedule and questionnaire with the subjects.


2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 05017
Author(s):  
Alena Sokolova ◽  
Anton Grunin ◽  
Viktor Lukanin ◽  
Valentin Shemarov

Both environmental risks and domestic violence exist in all countries of the world. This phenomenon is influenced by various factors: standard of living, ecological situation, environment, traditions, race, nationality and cultural values. This must be taken into account when imposing an appropriate punishment for commission of any illegal act. At the same time, family and domestic violence is not just a negative attribute of life of individual families, but also indicates serious issues of society, in the narrow sense, and the environment, in the broad sense. In connection with restrictions related to Covid-19 introduced in many countries, the level of domestic violence has increased, which proves a direct dependence on external negative factors in the field of health care, ecology, psychology, etc. Analysis of various factors influencing domestic violence has shown that this phenomenon has a high level of latency, and, as a rule, people learn about it only in cases where the consequences of such violence are difficult to hide due to their severity (for example, causing death or serious harm to health against the background of mental deviation). Having reviewed the news feeds over the past five years we can see that the relevance of the topic under consideration is beyond doubt, since the influence of environmental factors on the human psyche is not fully understood, and this aspect, one way or another, leads to the commission of illegal actions, which indicates the importance of balance between the environment, ecology and legality, society. The authors note that there is a synergistic relationship in which humanity interacts with the surrounding world, in all its diversity (water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, etc.). n addition, some judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on environmental problems and the environment, protection from domestic violence, including with the participation of Russian Federation as a defendant, were considered. Based on the analysis of the decisions expressed, as well as the norms of national legislation, a theoretical justification for changing the national criminal and environmental legislation, in terms of imposition of punishment, is formulated.


1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. McGee

Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Peña ◽  
Christine Fiestas

Abstract In this paper, we explore cultural values and expectations that might vary among different groups. Using the collectivist-individualist framework, we discuss differences in beliefs about the caregiver role in teaching and interacting with young children. Differences in these beliefs can lead to dissatisfaction with services on the part of caregivers and with frustration in service delivery on the part of service providers. We propose that variation in caregiver and service provider perspectives arise from cultural values, some of which are instilled through our own training as speech-language pathologists. Understanding where these differences in cultural orientation originate can help to bridge these differences. These can lead to positive adaptations in the ways that speech-language pathology services are provided within an early intervention setting that will contribute to effective intervention.


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