Essays on Spousal Abuse

Spousal abuse is defined as any abusive conduct, whether a single instance or several instances and discrete or regular, between sexual or intimate partners who are married, living together of even dating . It is often treated interchangeably as domestic violence which is how most legal frameworks address spousal abuse. Domestic violence is defined as any act that causes bodily harm, physical harm, or emotional harm conducted against a family member . The interchangeability of definition with domestic violence can diminish the nature of and the extent of victimization involved in spousal abuse. An intimate sexual relationship like marriage has a ...

Throughout the history of the development of the criminal justice system, researchers have always tried to categorize criminals on the basis of various factors in order to determine the needs of special treatment or rehabilitation process. Although the majority of offenders specialize in more than one particular type of crime, many of the delinquents and criminals "do show preference for certain antisocial acts that allow us to make rough categorization" and determine special criminal populations (Andrews & Bonta, 2010, p. 461). The two special populations that will be examined in this paper are as follows: sex offenders; male batterers. Patriarchal ...

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The most recent studies on stalking indicate that the typical stalking victim is a non-Hispanic female between 18 and 24. While demographic indicators may not change too much from survey to survey, the means that stalkers use to encroach on their victims’ lives have changed with the times. Indeed, Internet technology and electronic communications methods such as texting and email have given stalkers a new and insidious means of harassing a targeted individual. In fact, the 2006 National Crime Victimization Survey revealed that technology was used in one of every four stalking case. Theorists have shown that lifestyle-exposure and routine activity theories ...