HR232 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality
28 Dec 2019
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Most prevalent type of gender-based crime is male on female crime (46. 7%) 35% of women worldwide have once experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. Risk factors for male perpetrators: low education, alcoholism, child maltreatment, attitudes of accepting violence & gender inequality. Risk for women victims: low education, witnessing violence between parents/as a child, attitudes accepting violence & gender inequality. Women are at greatest risk for intimate partner violence when they"re in the process of. Leaving: also, economic downturns, after natural disasters, war-torn countries, failed states, also, when they"re moving towards equality. Domestic violence accounts for 12% of violent crime in canada. Domestic violence rates generally-speaking are not going down. Sexual assault reporting has gone up between 2010 and 2015 and is the only act to be reported more. Sexual violence among women is 36x higher than among men. Vulnerability of women to violence was institutionalized, both legally and culturally. 86% of accused for domestic homicide were men.
