ADMJ 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intimate Partner Violence, Michael Kimmel, Gender Inequality

• School: American River College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: ADMJ 300
• Professor: Mckinnon

Document Summary

Society is organized around male dominance and female subordination that is reported in virtually all societal settings, including the family. Characteristics of patriarchal organization facilitating intimate partner violence. Greater access to resources for men and devaluation of women. Weakening of moral restraints against violence against women. Abuse of women is an inevitable consequence of their subordination. Abuse reinforces male privileged when it is threatened, eroded, or taken away. Kimmel refers to this as a response to aggravated assult . Intimate violence within lgbtq relationships as common as in heterosexual relationships. Circumstances under which violence is tolerated, normalized, or condoned increase the chances of violence spilling over into other social settings. People who grow up where violence is common, they are more likely to reproduce that violence. Because learned behavior, grow up in a pal. Violence as a reaction to perceived injustice of police brutality. Harsh and erratic physical discipline of children (parent-to-child violence) resulting in childhoof and adolescent bullies.