CRM 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intimate Partner Violence, Stockfish, Religious Abuse

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 205
• Professor: Stephanie Ehret

Document Summary

Also known as domestic violence, family violence, wife abuse, spousal assault, woman abuse, and intimate partner violence. Each term has benefits as well as challenges, highlighting various elements of gender, abuse and violence to the exclusion of other elements (dragiewicz 2011). The term intimate partner violence has both benefits and challenges. Benefits: highlights that the violence is happening within an intimate relationship. Challenges: the term is gender-neutral, and this obfuscates the gendered realities of intimate abuse and violence and the structural inequalities that reproduce male privilege (minaker and snider 2006). Intimate partner violence occurs in an intimate relationship and it refers to current and former spouses (marital or common law) and dating partners. Violence against women was seen as a property issue. Example: rape of a woman viewed as theft, father/husband seen as the victim. Hierarchal order of the household became a moral order.