Domestic Abuse.

Question 1

What are 2 reasons the current domestic abuse figures could be speculated to be higher?

Answer 1

• embarrassment or fear by women/men.
• There’s a track record of the police not seriously following through on case of domestic abuse by dismissing them as women being overdramatic

Question 2

Logically why did domestic abuse figures Spike over the Covid19 pandemic?

Answer 2

Proximity to the abuser was more difficult to avoid over lockdown.

Question 3

/ of female homicides were

Answer 3

Perpetrated by a former or current male partner.

Question 4

Between a _th and a __________ of all violent crime is a crime of….

Answer 4

6th of violent crime Domestic abuse.

Question 5

Dobash and Dobash

Answer 5

Violence in the home is more likely to arise when a man feels his patriarchal authority is slighted and his worth must be proven by keeping his wife subordinated.

This comes from women challenging men’s behaviour and expectations of them.

Question 6

What do Marxists say about domestic abuse?

Answer 6

It is a consequence of male workers feeling a need to control something in their life. Their ugliest feelings and urges surface from the ugliness capitalism puts them through.
Women and children are the victims because they’re often who they return home to meet

Question 7

Radical feminists see violence as

Answer 7

Needed to maintain patriarchy, or the threat of it at least.

Question 8

Rape in marriage only became illegal in…

Answer 8

1991

Question 9

The equal pay act came into law in…

Answer 9

1970