INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE:

Instructor’s Manual For FAMILY &

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE:

HEAVY HANDS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

How to Use This Manual iii Sample Syllabus vi

Chapter 1: Global Violence against Women 1

Chapter 2: History of Violence in the Family 6

Chapter 3: Focus on Research 11

Chapter 4: Introduction to Child Abuse & Neglect 17

Chapter 5: Investigating Child Abuse 22

Chapter 6: Adolescent and Young Adult Victimization 28

Chapter 7: Adolescent Perpetrators 34

Chapter 8: Intimate Partner Violence 40

Chapter 9: LGBTI Partner Abuse 45

Chapter 10: Abuse in Later Life 51

Chapter 11: Adult Perpetrators 56

Chapter 12: The Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence 61

Chapter 13: Stalking and Homicide 67

Chapter 14: The Court Response to IPV 73 2 / 4

1 Copyright © 2019 Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 1 – Global Violence against Women CHAPTER ONE introduces students to family violence with a view of violence against women from selected countries around the world. Instructors may use this chapter to broaden student perspectives on family violence. It may help students to conceptualize family violence as an issue affecting diverse cultures and races. Intimate partner violence is recognized as a current social problem of epidemic proportions affecting millions of women, men, and children around the world.

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After reviewing this chapter, you should be able to:

After reviewing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Describe the forms of violence against women and its definition.
• Discuss the scope of violence against women.
• Explain the three forms of immigration relief established by the VAWA.
• Discuss the status of female genital mutilation as a global concern.
• Differentiate between female feticide and femicide.

Instructor Notes for Chapter 1

• Show a film on the global problem of violence against women.

Videos are available online at Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Film Media Group.Use their search to find movies that you would like for your class. D

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KILLINGS: PUNISHING THE INNOCENT and IT’S TIME: AFRICAN WOMEN JOIN HANDS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE are two examples. Go to: Films for the Humanities & Sciences TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE (2013). This is an excellent film that is available online for viewing at amazon.com. Highlighted by the 2014 - 2015 Women's Human Rights Film Series, it is the true story of Coumba and her plan to save her 11-year-old sister Debo from an arranged marriage in a small Senegalese village.The Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace offer a film

entitled FROM FEAR TO FREEDOM: ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN which can be

viewed online or ordered at no cost. This worldwide documentary on violence against women runs 35 minutes.Women Make Movies is a website offering films by and about women. Their series entitled “Violence against women: Ending the silence” contains films that may be ordered for educational use. The collection includes AFTER THE RAPE, about a Pakistani woman who fought a tribal council's order that she be gang-raped as punishment for a crime she didn't commit; SIN BY SILENCE, which examines a 3 / 4

2 Copyright © 2019 Pearson Education, Inc.women's domestic violence support group - from inside prison walls; Sundance award-

winner THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO; the critically acclaimed

SISTERS IN LAW; Academy-Award Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA, and more.

• Assign an internet project.

Ask each student to go onto the Internet and locate one site relating to global intimate partner violence. They should report to the class what was found on the site.

• Visit Amnesty International Web site.

There are videos clips available for download on international issues – including violence against women. These clips make good springboards for class discussion. Amnesty International on YouTube is a good starting place.

• Homework assignment.

Assign students to find an online news article about domestic violence in a foreign country.

• Invite a speaker.

Parental child abduction is a growing problem associated with the increase of persons in the U.S. having dual citizenship. Invite an officer from a state or federal law enforcement agency to talk about the rising issues of dual citizenship and family abductions.

Supplemental Reading Suggestions:

Human Rights Watch. (2015). Unequal and Unprotected: Women’s Rights Under

Lebanon’s Religious Personal Status Laws Human Rights Watch, Retrieved from

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2015/01/19/unequal-and-unprotected-1

Simply Scenario Divorce and Domestic Violence Cynthia was a beautiful and talented woman pursuing her dreams. With success came a whirlwind of fame, a husband, and six children. Several calls were made to seek help for the violence she suffered behind closed doors. Cynthia is not alone; millions of women around the world face the same fate at the hands of a partner. In this case, her life was unbearable and there was no way out. Married at age 20, she was dead by the age of 38.Poverty and economic struggles in a marriage may affect the rates at which couples will part. During the Great Depression, the rate of domestic violence went up in the United States as the divorce rate went down. When women are unable to financially care for their family, history tells us that a marriage—even a bad marriage—is preferred. There is some evidence that divorce proves a safety valve in cases of family violence. In the United States, the passing of no-fault divorce laws during the 1970s resulted in a rise in divorce rates and a decrease in domestic violence and women’s suicide. There is only one country in the world, other than the Vatican, where there is a national no-divorce

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