PSYC 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intimate Partner Violence, Femicide, Forced Marriage
16 Jul 2020
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Violence against women in canada: violence against women and girls across the life cycle, pre-birth: prenatal sex selection. Intimate partner violence: reproductive age, femicide, dowry-related violence bribes, treats women as object, abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, sexual harassment. Honour crimes: women persceived as disobeying the honour of the family by having sex before marriage, for example. Trafficking: elderly, abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, economic abuse. Includes verbal and emotional abuse through to sexual violence, physical assaults and homicides: measured by a) violence reported to the police and b) self-report surveys (e. g. , canada"s. It is unlikely that mental illness can account for all men"s abuse. Learned helplessness theory (seligman, 1960s: studies of learned helplessness in animals have been used to explain why battered women stay: Initially, a woman tries everything she can to stop the violence: ultimately, nothing stops the violence & she develops learned helplessness. Illusion that they can control their perpetrators behaviour.
