Second Draft- Domestic Violence Research Paper

Annotated Bibliography for Domestic Violence

Toya Jones

Devry University

Annotated Bibliography for Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is a described as a pattern of intimidating or assaultive behavior one partner uses against another person in a relationship. The relationships are often where the victim and the abuser live together, dating, had dated, married or are divorced. Most of the violence is intentioned to cause one to cede control or direction to an abuser. The victims of this kind of violence are people from all segments of the society. Most of the victims of this type of violence are women, though an increasing number of men are falling victim to this type of violence. Statistics on the number of people who suffer this type of violence are hard to come by since most of the violence occurs behind closed doors though experts speculate 1 in 5 women experience it in their lifetime.

Sherman, L. W., Schmidt, J. D., & Rogan, D. P. (1992). Policing domestic violence: Experiments and dilemmas. Free Press.

The author confronts tough questions on the single largest cause of domestic violence in the United States. The author tries to answer the tough question on how the police should respond to the millions of domestic violence cases reported to them. He interrogates why the crime has gone unreported for years and why suddenly a change in tact has resulted in 70% increase in reported cases. The author uses the findings of a federal research program that has spanned a number of years as the basis of answering the questions that were the outcome of the research. The author offers flexible policies that can be used to stem domestic violence at the end of the study.

The author is a criminologist and a leading police researcher; he is also the architect of the 1984 Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment, a series of controlled tests on the effects of arrest on repeated criminal activity.

Johnson, M. P., & Ferraro, K. J. (2000). Research on domestic violence in the 1990s: Making distinctions. Journal of Marriage and Family, 62(4), 948-963.

The article reviews the past in order to make prediction of the future. It describes the various contexts of domestic violence which is important in helping to theoretically and practically understand domestic violence. The article also provides a basis for developing other more important theories that would help in understanding domestic violence. T The article also illuminates the issue of control through violence. It also tackles and gives insight into how to cope with violence, its effects in children and the social effects of domestic violence.

The author also tears into the tendency by analysts to generalize domestic violence from one context to another and how the ill-informed conclusions affect the solving of the problem.

McCauley, J., Kern, D. E., Kolodner, K., Dill, L., Schroeder, A. F., DeChant, H. K., & Derogatis, L. R. (1995). The “battering syndrome”: prevalence and clinical characteristics of domestic violence in primary care internal medicine practices. Annals of internal medicine, 123(10), 737-746.

The article was intended to determine the incidences of domestic abuse among women and the clinical signs that are prevalent in domestic violence situations. The survey was done to deal with a cross section of the population and to be self-administered by the respondents, it was also designed to guarantee anonymity of the respondents. Around 1952 women of various educational, marital, social and age groups were sampled in the survey over a period of a few months. The results of the findings are what make up the basis of the article.

The author uses the findings to prove that domestic violence is more prevalent than first thought in society.

Fantuzzo, J., Boruch, R., Beriama, A., Atkins, M., & Marcus, S. (1997). Domestic violence and children: Prevalence and risk in five major US cities. Journal of the American Academy of child & Adolescent psychiatry, 36(1), 116-122.

The article tries to show the effect domestic violence has on the children who witness it firsthand. The study provided data on the frequency of children’s exposure to documented cases of female assaults in five cities across the United States. The article drew its data from the Spouse Assault Replication Program database and the data was then compared to data across the five cities that were part of the study. The article reports the findings of the report based on the results of the study.

The authors then draw conclusions which have recommendations on the way forward, treatment and assessments for child development.

Tolman, R. M., & Raphael, J. (2000). A review of research on welfare and domestic violence. Journal of Social Issues, 56(4), 655-682.

The article reviews the growing body of research on domestic violence and welfare. It breaks down the existing body of research by creating several areas to base the studies on domestic violence and welfare. The authors investigate the prevalence of domestic violence among women on welfare, employment and domestic violence, physical and mental health, child support and the policies and programs that affect both issues. The article also raises concern on how the data collected is examined and presented as research findings. And also how relevant it is in regard to Family Violence Option. The article also publishes research findings from conferences on the two issues.