Classification Paragraph. Evseeva Evgenia


         Domestic violence exists in all social groups, regardless of income level, education, and social status. Nevertheless, some factors have more influence on the manifestation of domestic violence than others; therefore, they determine the intensity and frequency of abuse in a family. So the scale of domestic violence may be determined by social and psychological factors of both the victim and the offender, which are interconnected and have a related impact on the domestic violence perpetration. Social factors incorporate
socio-demographic aspects, such as age and sex of the victim, level of education of the offender, his national and ethnic origin, family situation(married/unmarried, childless couple /couple with children); professional status and class position of both subject and object of violence. Psychological factors may also appear as the risk factors and traditionally include alcohol /drug addiction of the offender, victim’s attitude to the problem of domestic violence(connected with her education and relationships in her family in the childhood), and mental condition of the offender. It is especially important to understand a variety of factors and their relationship, which affect the scope of this phenomenon. The mentioned factors must be analyzed in order to eliminate the problem or significantly decrease its scale.



References:


Kishor. S and K. Johnson. (2004). Profiling domestic violence: A multi-country study. ORC Macro, Calverton, Maryland.