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Domestic violence against women has been occurring for centuries. Domestic violence is deemed as any and all physical, sexual, and verbal assaults towards an individual's body, sense of self, or sense of trust. It was not considered a world-wide issue or considered an issue in most countries until the 1980s.
The largest reduction in spending on domestic violence refuges was from Southampton City Council, which cut spending by 65% since 2013/4. [79] Women charities in the UK have complained of domestic violence victims being subjected to racism, by being refused places for refuge on the basis of the language they speak.
Anne Cools, Canada, senator, ran one of the first domestic violence shelters in Canada; Donna Ferrato, USA, photojournalist documenting domestic violence; Ellen Pence, USA, co-founded the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project; Erin Pizzey, England, founded the world's first domestic violence shelter
The management of domestic violence deals with the treatment of victims of domestic violence and preventing repetitions of such violence. The response to domestic violence in Western countries is typically a combined effort between law enforcement, social services, and health care. The role of each has evolved as domestic violence has been ...
Some modern research into predictors of injury from domestic violence suggests that the strongest predictor of injury by domestic violence is participation in reciprocal domestic violence. [204] When all things are considered, academics conclude that it is an "extreme, negative, and polarized model".
Another report by the US Department of Justice on non-fatal domestic violence from 2003 to 2012 found that 76% of domestic violence was committed against women and 24% was committed against men. [73] According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , the percentage of victims killed by their spouses or ex-spouses was 77.4% for women ...
4 Added a template for Violence against men. 1 comment. 5 Fiebert self-published source. 1 comment. 6 New CDC Report. 1 comment.
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 6.325, ranking it 1st out of 44 journals in the category "Social Work", [1] 1st out of 47 journals in the category "Family Studies", [2] and 2nd out of 69 journals in the category "Criminology & Penology".