Domestic violence

Question 1

What did Wilkinson say?

Answer 1

Explains class difference in DV
Not all are in equal danger
Overcroweded accommodation - higher stress
Inequality and stress
Worries about money, job, housing spills into conflict

Question 2

Whats the evidene for gender gap?

Answer 2

Walby and Allen - most women are victims
Ansara and Hitin - women suffer more severe attacks
DAr - difficult to count

Question 3

What are the official stats?

Answer 3

Yearnshire - women report abuse after 35 attacks
DAr - don’t report as police don’t believe them
Cheal - police believe family is a sphere good and women can get out

Question 4

Reasons for DV being widespread

Answer 4

Womes aid - accounts for 1/6-1/4 of all recorded crime

Crime survey - 2mil victims

Question 5

Reasons for DV not being random

Answer 5

Coleman et al - women are more likely to experience intimate violenve
Coleman and Osborne - 2 women a week killed by ex

Question 6

Definition ofDV

Answer 6

physical, psychological sexual and financial violencethat takes pace in an intimate relationship

Question 7

What did radical feminists say

Answer 7

family and marriage are the key institutions and main souce of oppression, widesperead DV is inevitable ad preserves mens powere
Male dominance explains police and court

Question 8

What are the criticisms of radical feminists?

Answer 8

Elliot - not all men are aggressive fail to explain female violence didn’t mention different groups