SOC271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Homicide, Maladjusted, Elder Abuse
3 May 2017
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Chapter 14- all in the family: violence against women, children, and the aged. Abuse- include bad practices or customs and using harsh and insulting language: by referring to customs, the definition hints at the importance of the relationship between the abused and the abuser, both physical and psychological. Spousal violence- cases of murder, attempted murder, sexual and physical assault, threats, criminal harassment, and other violent offenses in which the accused person is a spouse, ex-spouse, or common-law partner. Neglect- includes commissions (acts that put others at risk/injury) or omissions (failing to prevent risk/injury: most common form of abuse, neglect is amplified by dependency. Physical violence- one person intentionally and repeatedly hurts another; at the extreme, murder (intimate femicide, infanticide, filicide) is the outcome: femicide- the murder of women by men. Men and women are equally likely to be the victims of violent crime.
