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Socio-cultural Determinant Of Domestic Violence
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1.7 DEFINATION OF TERMS
Domestic
Violence as different forms of affecting on individual, varying from
one society to another and, some of this form will be stated below for a
better understanding.
Physical: Inflicting or attempting to inflict
physical injury example: grabbing, pinching, and shoving, slapping,
hitting, biting, arm-twisting, kicking, punching, hitting with blunt
objects, stabbing, shooting withholding access to resources necessary to
maintain health example: medication, medical i e, wheelchair, food or
fluids, sleep, hygienic assistance Forcing alcohol or other drug use.
Sexual:
Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact without consent
example: marital rape, acquaintance rape, forced sex after physical
beating, attacks on the sexual parts of the body, forced prostitution,
fondling, sodomy, sex with others. Attempting to undermine the victim'
sexuality example: treating him/her in a sexually derogatory manner,
criticizing sexual performance 'e and desirability, accusations of
infidelity, withholding sex.
Psychological: Instilling or attempting
to instill fear example: intimidation, threatening physical harm to If,
victim, and/or others, threatening to harm and/or kidnap children,
menacing, blackmail, harassment, destruction of pets and property, mind
games, stalking. Isolating or to isolate victim from friends, family,
school, and/or work example: withholding hone and/or transportation,
undermining victim's personal relationships, harassing others, constant
“checkup,†constant accompaniment, use of unfounded accusations, forced
imprisonment.
Emotional: Undermining or attempting to undermine
victim sense of worth example: constant criticism, belittling victim's
abilities and competency, name-calling, insults, put-downs, silent
treatment, I manipulating victim's feelings and emotions to induce
guilt, subverting a partner's relationship with the children, repeatedly
making and breaking promises.
Economic: Making or attempting to make
the victim financially dependent example: maintaining total control
over financial resources including victim's earned income or resources
received t' rough public assistance or social security, withholding
money and/or access to money, forbidding attendance at school,
forbidding employment, on-the –job harassment, requiring accountability
and justification for all money spent, forced welfare fraud, withholding
information about family running up bills for which the victim is
responsible for payment.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research was based on domestic violence in Agege local government, Lagos state Nigeria. The people of Agege local government constitute the study population. The main objectives of this study were to examine how domestic violence influences the people living in this area. The data used for the study was collected through her interview schedule in which 200 respondent were selected through systematic random sampling.From the study, it was observed that the majority respondent agreed that wom ... Continue reading---
