SOSC 2652 Lecture Notes - Intimate Partner Violence

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2652
• Professor: Anna Pratt

Document Summary

Intimate partner violence: wife assault, wife battery, wife abuse, wife beating, partner abuse, wife torture (cid:224)different ways we name things have different implications and policy implications, e. g. 1982: directive from federal solicitor general: pro charge policing and no drop prosecution, urge all policing practices to be more aggressive in enforcing wide assault, trying to counter notion that wife assault was mostly private affair, address it as a serious social issue, powerpoint. 1993 statistics canada, violence against women victimization survey: most rigorous and comprehensive study to date, random sample of 12,300 women across canada, wife assault, 29% have been assaulted by a spouse/live in opposite sex partner, kinds of violence, 25% pushing, grabbing shoving, 19% Wife assault as a social problem: numbers, gendered crime, vast majority of victims in these crimes are women, connected to other forms of violence against women and to non violent aspects of gender subordination, historical foundations.