Why Do Domestic Violence Laws Need To Be Strict

Domestic Violence Laws Needs to be More Stricter.

Domestic violence is an intentional intimidation, physical assault, sexual assault, and other abusive behavior by an intimate partner against the other. Domestic violence includes physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence, and emotional abuse. When domestic violence occurred it not only affects the victim, but it also affects the family of the victim, and the children who may witness the altercation or discussion. According to The National Domestic Violence Hotline “an average of 24 individuals per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year.” ( Statistics) Most of these involved are females ages 18 to 34, as they generally experience

the highest rates of intimate partner violence. After a domestic violence incident, most victims start to develop many mental disorders as a consequence of the incident. Nowadays, in many states across the United States, many women are victims of domestic violence, and on many occasions some of those victims are afraid to seek help. There many reason that those victims are afraid to seek help, for example. They are afraid to loss their children, afraid that the police will not believe them, and afraid of what society will think about the situation. On some occasions when those victims seek help, the law enforcement do a poor job which makes things complicated for the victims. Implementing stricter it process to prosecute the abuser will lead to less domestic violence incidents and fever murders.

Domestic violence victims usually a spouse or partner but it can also be a child or other family member fear from the abuser.

The abuser may use many different types of abuse to assert this power, and the overall in which the abuse occurs may follow a pattern. Violent events may occur in a variety of patterns the victim may experience ongoing, nonstop abuse, or the abuse may stop and start. The abuse often seen in a violent relationship begins with a tension, followed by the actual abusive act, and then calm. On the other hand, the victim may also attempt to bring on the violence to get it over with. The abuser may deny the violence or blame the other person for his or her actions. The abuser may promise that the abuse will never happen again. That’s how typically the abuser gets over with the situation. According with the Department of Justice “approximately 95% of the victims of domestic violence are women. Women are most likely to be killed when attempting to leave the abuser. In fact, they are at a 75% higher risk than those who stay. 50% of the homeless women and children in the United States are fleeing abuse.” (

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Victims of domestic violence are not treated fear the law enforcement is doing a poor job while dealing with this situation. The case of Tracey Thurman from the city of Torrington in Connecticut happened on June of 1983 is a vivid example of the poor job of law enforcement. Tracy Thurman call the police in several occasions to file complaints against her husband Buck Thurman for assaulted her, but the police ignored her. After many attempts finally the police did something he got arrested for attacking her in front of the police officers and the judge gave her a protecting order. Meanwhile the abuser, Beck Thurman continued the patron of abuse, and threat Tracey Thurman, she called the police in several occasions but they continue to ignored her. “Buck Thurman stabbed Tracey thirteen times in the chest, neck, shoulders, and face, which occurred ten minutes AFTER she called the Torrington Police.” (Administrator) If the law against abuser is stricter success like this will never happen again. After the Tracey Thurman case the “Connecticut legislature adopted a more comprehensive domestic violence law. In the twelve months after the new law took effect, the number of domestic violence assaults reported increased by 92 percent! (In the first 12 months following the new law, arrests for domestic assaults doubled from 12,400 arrests to 23,830.” (Administrator) Even that the State of Connecticut adopted a more successful law unfortunately on August 23, 2007 in Plymouth, Connecticut Jennifer Magnano loss her life after many attempts to fight for her life. She seek help from the law enforcement, and unfortunately she was murder by her ex-husband. Situations like that will continue to happen if the judicial system does not change the currents laws.
Usually, what the judicial system does is to grand a protective order to “protect the victims” from the abuser. A protective order is an order issued by a judge to protect a victim in most domestic violence cases. This order does nothing, why? The abuser can get to the victim’s house broke a window, and get inside the residence, and easy commit a crime. If instead of only giving victims of domestic violence a protective order the judicial system should automatically take the abuser into custody, and if the abuser is going to be free in the community, they should electronically monitor the abuser. Law enforcement need to treat domestic violence calls as a high priority. When police officer get to the scenario of the altercation or dispute they need to approach carefully, send more than two officers, and make a mandatory arrest till the abuser see a judge. In most occasions the officer only, talk with the abuser, try to calm the abuser, and then leave the house. Instead of doing a poor job police officer should take the abuser out of the house, and run a background check before taking any further actions. The common mistake in domestic violence cases is that most victims are afraid to speak, and most of the time victims hide evidences for fear of being ignored. The law need to change and become stricter for abuser, to end this terrible situation that is taking many innocents lives.
Unfortunately, domestic violence lead to many health and mental disorder that will remain for a long period of time in the victims lives. Mental problems such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicidal behavior, anxiety and low self steem. Some of the health issues are headaches, back pain, broken bones, gastrointestinal disorder, heart conditions and others due to the aggression. In the state of Connecticut there are an innumerable place that help victims with shelter, health services, trainings, mental services and others. No matter how much help can be provide to a victim if the abuser still free in the community the victims will always be traumatized and nothing will help. Therefore, the law need to change immediately to provide safety to the victims.