SOCL 2505 : Final Exam Study Guide
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Know the 1st law against wife beating: early history, puritans believed government should enforce moral behavior, not including husbands beating their wives, first law against wife beating in massachusetts bay. Colony in 1641: few people were charged with this crime, balance between preserving the family unit and of protecting women and children from abuse was difficult to maintain. Political and medical: the twentieth century, 1. The political model of domestic violence: referred to the relations of power and authority between men and women: politically constructed in two ways, 1. Situational couple violence: violence that arises from a specific situation in which one or both partners act aggressively in anger. (more common, less serious; pushing/shoving, verbal; men and women equally likely to initiate this type: 2. Those separated but not divorced could have ended those relationships because they were violent: 2. Lower risk for married than cohabitating could be selection effect.
