FEM 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Common Assault, English Law, The Ottawa Hospital

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2107
• Professor: Zoi Coucopoulos

Document Summary

Discipline his wife and children: this perception became the basis in english common law, in the 1970s, when the women"s liberation movement took hold, attention was drawn to rape as a crime of power. Is there anything we can do about it: not all men are violent, we must understand the various factors involved in the socialization of boys, family violence as a factor, evaluations of programs for men who batter. Intimate partner violence (ipv) in canada (octevaw: hidden from sight: A look at the prevalence of violence against women in ottawa, may. 2009): nearly 200,000 women reported to statistics canada"s 2004. General social victimization survey that they had been assaulted or sexually assaulted by a spouse in the previous year: police reported over 38,000 incidents nation-wide, representing approx. It can occur in mixed gender relationships and same gender relationships and has profound consequences for the lives of children, individuals, families and communities.