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Battered Women 2
Title: Battered Women 2
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1229 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Battered Women 2
Battered Women
Women are more likely to be assaulted by husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, and ex-boyfriends than by a stranger. Domestic violence crimes committed against women are a staggering number; even though feminist have advocated for decades for women's rights laws to try and protect women from battering spouses. The truth is that,"in one six year period alone -- 1967 to 1973 -- battering men killed 17,500 women and children in the United States"(Jones 23). Exactly twice that number, in …showed first 75 words of 1229 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1229 total…domestic violence must be accountable for their actions and has to see that the punishment is justified. Though the necessary first step to initiate this type of conceptual thinking is to maximize punishment for first time offenders of domestic violence crimes (48).
Works Cited
Groetsch, Michael. He Promised He'd Stop. Brookfield: CPI Publishing, 1997.
Jacobson, Neil and John Gottman. When Men Batter Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Jones, Anne. Next Time, She'll Be Dead. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
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