Spousal Abuse

Essay # 59585

Criminology > Public and Crime
Gender and Sexuality > Gender Studies
Psychology > Social

Spousal Abuse

An overview of statistics and trends in domestic violence.

706 words () | 4 sources | MLA | 2005 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how statistics have shown that women abuse men at an equal rate as men abuse women and how half of all domestic murders are committed by women. It looks at how the trend across the decades is that women are becoming more violent and that men do not report it because of their gender role.

From the Paper:

"The most important question at hand is why the stereotype even exists when the data does not reflect it. Most people know that both sexes have testosterone, and that given the right situation anyone regardless of sex can be provoked into an aggressive act. And based on the examples I have given, why do we not see men's shelters or hear of husband battering on the news? Is the idea of women being violent a hard thing for many people to believe? It does go against the stereotype of the passive and helpless female, but a better explanation for the myth is that police records do not reflect the ratio found by Steinmetz and Gelles."