Domestic Violence
...ge Statistics in New York City • 42% of homicide victims are killed at the hands of the husband/boyfriend • 8% out of this 42% are women under the age of 20 years old POWER AND CONTROL WHEEL 1. Intimidation Techniques • Use of scare tactics • Display weapons (knife, gun) • Destroy personal property 2. Emotional abuse • Put downs (“nobody wants you”, “you’re not good enough bitch” • Name calling (bitch, etc) • Play mind games (puts more fear and confuses the woman) 3. Use of isolation techniques • Control of the movement of the woman (demanding where she is all the time) • Controls who she talks to (telephone calls, etc.) • Jealous, to justify this behavior 4. Blame • Make lite of the abuse • Deny it ever happened • You bought it on yourself (“I hit you because it is your fault”) 5. Use of the children: Girls who grow up on a household used to see violence tend to be become passive when they experience the same. Boys tend to use the violence later. • Threat of taking the kids away • Harass the kids: hit or threat the kids • Use the kids to rely messages (“Tell your mother this, tell your mother that”) 6. Use the male privilege • The male will define the role behavior at the household (how things are going to be at the house, his way) • Treats the woman as a slave • He acts as the lord and the master at the household 7. Economic Abuse • Man controls the money • Man makes woman to beg for the money to run the household • Man keeps her from taking or keeping a job 8. Use of threats • “I will kill you” • “I will leave you” • “You’d better drop the charges” THE CYCLE OF ABUSE Explosion Stage Tension Building Stage Honeymoon Stage Some behaviors affect the man (tension building stage); the fight comes (explosion stage); he regrets about what happened and buy the woman flowers and presents (hone...