Why do you think there has been an increase of reporting acts of violence against women in the last 30 yrs?

Question

Its for a research paper just trying to find points for a thesis statement. It needs to include both supporting and opposing viewpoints.

Here's what i have so far:
*More resources available to victims
*Gender power shift (false reporting)

Any other ideas? thanks for all the help

lisa> i wasn't implying the powershift relates only to false reporting, but there is alot interesting information out there about false reporting being used as an alternative form of power, as well as the research thats being done on reverse IPV.

nabil> u disgust me!

Answer 1

I would guess that daytime talk shows have had an influence on encouraging women to report violence and seek help. We're seeing this issue addressed more in magazines, tv, movies, books, and the news, and that is helping reduce the stigma of shame for the victim.

Answer 2

As a White Man of Viking descent I realize I am not supposed to comment on a topic like this, but I really don't care. My wife is Chinese, and I find women of all races and colors to be beautiful. I think the reason why white women and black men date is for the same reasons why I have dated black women and Asian women. They look good. I have dated black women and been very satisfied with the experiences due to the unbelievable hotness of black women. All women are beautiful, and if I was a straight white women, I believe I would find men of all races and colors to be beautiful. Thank God I am a man because I like to be the man, and I have found women of all races like to submit to my masculine nature. It is the natural order of the human species for women to be submissive and men dominant. In my experiences I have found black women to be much more submissive than white women, and white women more submissive than Asian women. Maybe that's why I like black women so much, they make me feel manly. As far as white people being less evolved than blacks, that is just an ignorant racist remark most likely made by a very miserable person. It is true there have been many wonderful civilizations in Africa throughout history, but the same should also be said of Europe, Asia, and the Americas. For anyone to believe one race superior to another is small-minded indeed. Please keep your mind open to people from other cultures and races. The human species has had enough senseless violence and bloodshed because of close-mindedness. If two people love each other than that is that. It may be natural to want all the people of one's race to not date interracially, but that is just not a realistic viewpoint. People are going to date whoever they want, and anyone else's opinion is of no consequence. This issue has nothing to do with uncontrolled immigration by the way. That is just plain stupidity.

Answer 3

Stagnant maturing in culture, finances, and drugs.

Social functions decreasing creating a diminishing social maturing from "Me" to "You". Parents who want to be friends rather than parents. Less family dinners, vacations, and time to spend designated family time together. This many times causes the parents to compensate by giving monetary gifts like televisions, video games, and other 'popular' items like I-pod's. Children being raised by television, video games, and Internet.

These children then stagnate on learning how to manage money, time, and rejection. Grown adults then throw what appears to be 'temper-tantrums' and these grow into abuse. The number one cause for divorce is finances ... so again, when an individual is raised getting their every whim ... well, they never learn about finances, creating chaos, creating possibilities to be violent.

Lastly, there is a drug problem, which causes a huge portion of these. In the last 30 years, drugs have evolved from pot, LSD, to cocaine, and now we're in an epidemic of 'crack' addicts. Drugs hit all the violent buttons; finances, maturity, and mental stability (including level three addictions).

Answer 4

Because women have been reporting these things more. There was a time when it was seen to be the woman's fault if act of violence were put on her. Women did not report them because of the shame they would bring to their families. Now, women know that there is no shame in reporting abuse and violence. The shame lies with the abuser not the victim.

Answer 5

Sure! The first thing that comes to my mind is the following:

Violent criminal offenders are usually younger than their victims. The range may vary from 5 to 15 years of age difference depending on the type of crime.

For example, the average victim/offender age difference for homicide in 1975 was 5 years of difference: 35.2 yrs. - 30.3 yrs; in the year; in the year 2003 it was 32.3: 28 years.

Therefor, when I read your thesis, the first thing that came to my mind is: younger women are becoming victims because offender are younger and younger everyday... both younger men and juveniles are becoming more able to commit criminal acts.

Offender are getting younger. why?

Social/educational factors may affect in the way young people manage everyday-life problems. Deficiencies in our education (home education and family education) might bring as results social inability, which is one of the issues that is most common among offenders... (lack of social/personal empathy).

Criminology and Victimology is very related to your subject of study.

I wish you the best with your investigation.

Answer 6

I believe it's mostly due to the following:

1) Women can actually report abuse and rape and be believed.

2) Women know that there are things in place to help them, counseling centers, etc.

3) Because of 24 hour news stations, cell phones and the internet, more reporting has become public knowledge and it's not taboo anymore to report it.

Answer 7

I would think the increase in population would also tend to create more actual and false charges of abuse so naturally the numbers would grow as well.
With legislation aimed specifically at abuse of women (ignoring the nearly equal abuse of men), the likelihood of false charges have grown exponentially because of the lobbying done by feminism to create an anti-male society. This is especially true of political prostitutes who pander to women solely to be (re)elected.
What would be considered as simply an argument has escalated into abuse, even when no actual abuse ensued. Allowing women to claim psychological and/or emotional abuse even when there is none, has opened up a whole new set of charges.

Answer 8

Support Treaty for the Rights of Women (CEDAW)

History
On December 18, 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The call for a Treaty for the Rights of Women emerged from the First World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. Until 1979, when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Treaty, there was no document that comprehensively addressed women's basic human rights within political, cultural, economic, social, and family life.
Often called an international "Bill of Rights" for women, the Treaty for the Rights of Women is the culmination of more than 30 years of work by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and its member countries and country states. As of August 2006, 184 countries have ratified the Treaty. The creation of this Treaty was the first critical step in developing a standard for basic human rights for women. These standards address abuses (physical, sexual, economic, and political) of women and promote women's equality of rights and well-being.
In order for the United States to ratify an international treaty, two-thirds of the Senate must consent–that is 67 "yes" votes. No action by the House of Representatives is required for ratification of international treaties.
Chronology: The Road to Ratification
1975: The First UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City calls for a Women's Convention to promote equal rights for women worldwide.
December 18, 1979: United Nations approves the Treaty for the Rights of Women (formally known as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women–or CEDAW).
July 17, 1980: President Jimmy Carter signs the Treaty as he is leaving office. The Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations decline to seek ratification.
1990: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on the Treaty.
1993: Sixty-eight senators write to President Bill Clinton requesting treaty ratification.
1993: The United States commits itself at the U.N. World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria, to ratification of the Treaty for the Rights of Women, among others.
1994: The Clinton administration recommends ratification with four reservations, three understandings and two declarations on issues including private conduct, combat assignments, comparable worth, paid maternity leave, federal-state implementation, freedom of speech, and health care financing. [1]
September 1994: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes 13-5 with one abstention to recommend treaty passage by the full Senate. But several senators put a "hold" on it for the duration of the 103rd Congress.
August 1995: At the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, the United States makes treaty ratification a primary commitment to be achieved before 2000.
1998: San Francisco, Calif. approves a local ordinance implementing treaty principles. Similar actions occur in Iowa.
March 16, 1999: The CEDAW Committee approves an Optional Protocol that provides a process for complaints of treaty violations that lets women appeal directly to the United Nations.
1999: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and nine other senators call for a new hearing and treaty ratification but are rebuffed by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
May 2000: The House International Relations Committee holds an informational hearing on the Treaty: A total of 168 nations have ratified it, and 62 have ratified the Optional Protocol.
June 13, 2002: Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, holds a hearing on the Treaty for the Rights of Women (CEDAW).
July 30, 2002: The treaty was voted favorably out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a vote of 12 to 7.
Fall 2002: The Senate adjourned in 2002 without time for a vote on ratification. The treaty reverted back to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the leadership of new chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN).
2003: The Treaty stalled in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where it remains today.
August 2006: A total of 184 nations have now ratified the treaty.

I got all this from the CEDAW website.

Answer 9

I would go with the legal system finally recognizing domestic abuse as a crime and not a private family matter. For example, courts starting to prosecute rape within marriage.

Answer 10

I would say a lot of it would be false reporting, combined with more resources available. So both.

Lots of times the scenario is this: the woman is mad at her husband and starts to physically attack him. He defends himself and in the process may accidentally inflict injury on her--and SHE calls the police and claims to have been attacked.

Sadly enough, cops mostly go along with the woman.