Feminist Theory: Intimate Partner Violence

3. Feminist Theory- According to Meda Chesney-Lind, women commit crime because of objectification and victimization they are forced to endure as a result from a deep rooted social patriarchy. Women are reduced to criminal behavior because it they depend on it to survive (Clifford, Agnew, and Wilcox, 2014).

4. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) - Intimate Partner Violence is categorized under a form of domestic abuse, however, it focuses mainly on the long-term effects it has on the victims (McHugh and Frieze, 2006).

5. Recidivism- According to the National Institute of Justice, recidivism is the, “person’s relapse into criminal behavior,” that is measure by “rearrests, reconviction, or return to prison with or without a new sentence during a three-year period following the prisoner’s release,” (Recidivism, 2014)

6. Rehabilitation- in the context of crime, is the act of a criminal person re-integrating into society and accepting the social norms as a part of their own.

Review of Literature

Viewing literature works singularly will help distinguish between the proposed dependent and independent variables in the research. In explanation, the independent variable consists of domestic violence and intimate partner violence because it is one of the main reasons of sexual objectification and victimization among women. The dependent variable is the increased crime rates among women due to the victimization and abuse they endure. However, they both stand-alone since the study main focus is to research how domestic abuse rates have increased as well as how crime rates have increased over the