Domestic violence

• Stunko


  A women is killed by current/former partner every 3 days in England and Wales
• Dobashs


  Found police usually didn't record violent crimes by husband against wives
• Radical feminists

  • Before 1991, husband could force themselves onto wife > laws and social policies traditionally worked to control women, keep men's power in society
  • Violence against women in family = form of power and control
  • Social climate maintains situation > women feel stigmatised
  • Dobashs = most women who left violent partners returned, fear of being stigmatised and financially dependent
• Criticisms

  • Functionalists = most families are harmonious
  • Post modernists = people have more choice to avoid, sometimes women are abusive
  • Elliot = fail to explain child abuse by women