DV

Question 0

How was DV viewed?

Answer 0

A taboo subject

Question 1

When was DV violence considered before the law passed?

Answer 1

If a murder or serious insult was involved

Question 2

What did women try to do in the 19th century? Did they succeed?

Answer 2

Campaigned for equal rights and no success

Question 3

What was the view on the law toward DV?

Answer 3

People believed the law should only apply to public and not private life

Question 4

What was the rule called? Who made it?

Answer 4

Rule of thumb which was created by a judge Sir Francis Butler. This implied that it was acceptable to beat you wife with a stick if the stick was not thicker than a thumb

Question 5

When was the rule of thumb made?

Answer 5

1782

Question 6

How did DV become a crime?

Answer 6

• Campaign groups
• women got the vote in 1918
• Channel 4 soap ‘brookside’
• media intervention
• Idea that government should intervene in family life

Question 7

List some campaign groups

Answer 7

• Marches/rallies
• Women’s aid groups
• National Women’s Aid Fed.

Question 8

Name a march/rally

Answer 8

Ban the bra

Question 9

Name a womens aid group

Answer 9

Chiswick refuge set up in 1971 by Erin Pizzey to which 40 more followed

Question 10

What did the National Aid federation do?

Answer 10

• Determined to increase public awareness
• Held marches and rallies
• Brought together all refuge and helped improve support for women and children

Question 11

When was the National Womens Aid Federation established?

Answer 11

1974

Question 12

What did the National womens aid federation do in 1978?

Answer 12

At the national conference the demanded freedom from intimidation or sexual coercion and an end toaws that perpetrated male dominance

Question 13

What did Brookside do? When?

Answer 13

In 1990s it featured an episode which addressed the issue of DV. It was a popular tv show so people would witness the severity of DV.

Question 14

Who raised the issue of DV?

Answer 14

Jack Ashley MP

Question 15

When did Jack Ashley MP raised the issue of DV?

Answer 15

1971

Question 16

What did parliament do in response to Jack Ashley brining up DV?

Answer 16

Set up the Select Comitee on Violence in Marriage to consider passing law

Question 17

When was the DV act passed?

Answer 17

1976

Question 18

What did the 1976 DV act entail?

Answer 18

Non molestation orders and exclusion orders where violent a used could not return home

Question 19

When was rape I marriage considered a criminal offence?

Answer 19

1991

Question 20

When was the Family Law act passed?

Answer 20

1996

Question 21

What did the family law act do?

Answer 21

Provide extra protection to victims and automatic arrest if violence against spouse took place

Question 22

When was the DV, Crime and Victims act pass?

Answer 22

2004

Question 23

What did the DV, Crime and Victims act entail?

Answer 23

All victims male and female could be given the same protection
Increased power of police and courts to act against a users
If broken the non molestation order they would get 5 years in prison

Question 24

Who thought existing laws wouldn’t help deal with DV?

Answer 24

Police superintendents association and chief police officers association

Question 25

Who argued that violence in homes were not as serious as other crimes eg theft?

Answer 25

Judicial representatives and police

Question 26

What did the met police think laws against domestic violence would do?

Answer 26

Put strain on police manpower to deal with cases