CCJ-3666 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, Random Assignment, Vicus
15 Apr 2016
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The dominaion of men over women has strong historical roots. Early roman law treated women as the property of their husbands, a custom reinforced by biblical passage, chrisianity, english common law, and the mores of american colonists. Women have held no legal standing throughout most of history. Any harm commited against a woman was viewed as an ofense against the father or husband, not her. Consequently, it ws the male owner who sout vengeance or compensaion for his loss. Husbands and fathers were expected to punish women. The legal movement in this country to restrict wife beaing can be divided into roughtly three stages: the irst period occurred in the mid 1600s, when the puritans in massachusets enacted laws against wife beaing and family violence. Worries over immigraion, rising crime, the use of alcohol, prompted the passage of laws restricing family conlict and allowing for outside intervenion. Some state even mandated public logging as a punishment for beaing women.
