SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bulletproof Glass, Crisis Hotline, Family Therapy
13 Jun 2017
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Does nothing to prevent women abuse from happening. The shelters were for their children as well, since women would never leave without their children. First house established: they realized there needed to be a bunch of other resources. Women"s shelters are not interesting to wealthy people. Deserving poor people seen as being helpless and deserving: children. Feminist counselling empower women and build up their confidence after it has been stripped away over years of abuse. Women abuse historically and even today is not taken seriously reforms in the criminal justice system, some of these reforms start to come in, in the. 1980"s lobbying reforms, first one was to improve how police responded to women abuse (police intervened to a limited extent) When the police would come, the abused/victim would ask the police to not press charges, he would be taken away for a few hours and be back and beat her again blaming her.
