Domestic Violence

Question 1

How many violent crimes are domestic violence?

Answer 1

25%

Question 2

In England and Wales, how many people report being victims of domestic violence a year?

Answer 2

2 million

Question 3

Dobash and Dobash (1979) claim what reason for domestic violence?

Answer 3

Men justified their actions by stating that they felt their wives were challenging their authority

Question 4

What did Yearnshire (1997) find about domestic violence?

Answer 4

In average, a women has to be assaulted 35 times before reporting it to the police

Question 5

What did Cheal (1991) find about domestic violence?

Answer 5

Found that the police are often very reluctant to get involved with domestic violence cases, seeing it as a private matter for the couple to sort out

Question 6

What do radical feminists believe about domestic violence?

Answer 6

Domestic violence is symptomatic of living in a patriarchal society

Question 7

What do radical feminists Millet and Firestone (1970) believe about domestic violence?

Answer 7

They identify 3 reasons for domestic violence to happen. 1) men resort to violence to control women. 2) women are pressured into marriage trapping themselves and becoming the property of man. 3) the justice system is a patriarchal i institution meaning domestic violence isn’t taken seriously

Question 8

Evaluation of the radical feminist view on domestic violence?

Answer 8

• wrongly claim all men are violently

- ignores the fact that women can be violent

Question 9

What does the materialistic view believe about domestic violence?

Answer 9

Domestic violence is closely tied to the financial inequalities that exist in society

Question 10

What do materialistic sociologists Wilkinson and Pickett (2010) believe about domestic violence?

Answer 10

Ia a bigger problem in lower socioeconomic groups. Those without a stable income are more likely to experience domestic violence

Question 11

What two reasons do materialistic sociologists Wilkinson and Pickett (2010) give for domestic violence?

Answer 11

• families with a shortage of money are more likely to likely to experience tension, which could lead to violence
• families with a shortage of money are unlikely to be able to spend time with other people, so they’re together for large periods of time. They feel unsupported by the lack of social contact

Question 12

Evaluation of the materialistic perspective on domestic violence?

Answer 12

• doesn’t explain why the vast majority of domestic violence is committed by the man
• can also happen in middle class backgrounds