Annotated Bibliography

*Kyriacou, Demetrios N, et al. “Risk Factors for Injury to Women from Domestic Violence.” The New

England Journal of Medicine 341 (1999): 1892-1898.

-This is article is a study detailing the risk factors that lead to a woman being abused. It also discusses how many women were treated and what the injuries were.

-I will use the information from this article to explain how prevalent this crime is. I will also use it to give the facts and statistics of this crime.

*Connelly, Clare and Cavanagh, Kate. “Domestic Abuse, Civil Protection Orders and the ‘New

Criminologies ‘: is There Any Value in Engaging with the Law?” Feminist Legal Studies 16.1

(2007): 259-287.

-This article is explaining civil protection orders and how they can help women who are victim of domestic abuse.

-I will use this article to explain how this could be a way to fix the system. This article will also help me further show the ineffective police responses to domestic abuse.

*Kmietomicz, Zosia. “More Vigilance Needed to Tackle Domestic Abuse.” British Medical Journal 15.12

(2007): 1289.

-This article explains how doctors need to be more vigilant in looking for signs of domestic abuse.

-I will use this article to explain another solution to the problem. The solution is getting doctors to take a more active role in helping with the war of domestic violence.

*Danis, Fran S. “Domesitc Violence and Social Work Education: What Do We Know, What Do We Need To Know?” Journal of Social Work Education 39.2 (2003): 215-223.

-This article explains how the lack of education about domestic violence issues effects social workers.

-I will use this article to show that if social workers were better educated on the issue of domestic violence they could be more able to help the victims. If they were more educated they could help end the war of domestic violence.

*Ramsay, Jean, et al. “Should Health Professionals Screen Women for Domestic Violence?” British

Medical Journal 325 (2002): 314-317

-This article is a research study with information from patients and doctors on their thoughts of the procedure of screening for domestic violence.

-I will use this article to further justify one solution to the problem of war on domestic violence. It will show women’s personal thoughts on the situation.

*Edleson, Jeffery L. “Children’s Witnessing of Adult Domestic Violence.” Journal of Interpersonal

Violence 14.8 (1999):839-870.

-This is an article explaining how the women are not the only victims of domestic violence and that their children can suffer just as much.

-I will use this article to help iterate that the war on domestic violence needs attention because innocent children are becoming victims as well. Domestic violence has gone too far.

*Johnson, Ida M. “Victim’s perceptions of Police Response to Domestic Violence Incidents.” Journal of

Criminal Justice 35.5 (2007): 498-510.

-This article is based on a research study that emphasized on how women who were victims of domestic violence perceived the police responses.

-I will use this article to detail another issue that needs attention in order to improve the problem of domestic violence. Although there are some laws to help with police responses, many women are still unsatisfied.

*Defending Our Lives. Dir. Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich. 1997. Videocassette. Cambridge

Documentary Films.

-This video was a collection of interviews with women who are in prison because they killed their partner because that was the only way to get away from the abuse. These women all recount the horrific experiences that they had in these relationships.

-I will use the information from this video to highlight the ways the system is flawed in dealing with the way on domestic violence. Because all of this information is from women’s personal experiences it will be very affective.

*Dorian, Patty. “So Who’s Left?” Off Our Backs 31.9 (2001): 24.

-This article discusses all the problems with battered women shelters today.

- I will use this article to explain the need to fix the system of shelters to help the victims more. Having a safe place to stay is very helpful for these women so the system should be fixed.

Group Media Project # 1

Group Media Project 2

Research Plan

For my proposal paper I am going to write a paper proposing that the ways of helping women who are victims of domestic abuse need to be improved. I have done a sufficient amount of research on this topic already so I have the main points of my paper decided. My main points will be the following:

- Discussing the damage domestic abuse does to everyone involved, even by standers such as children.

· Statistics of the victims (The New England Journal of Medicine)

· Psychological evaluations of victims. (The New England Journal of Medicine)

- How doctors need to be educated better on how to spot and deal with domestically abused women.

· What the doctors are doing now.

· What they should do to make it better for the women. (British Medical Journal)

- How to improve the laws that deal with domestic abuse.

· The loop holes in the current laws. (Feminist Legal Studies)

· How they should be fixed to improve them. (Feminist Legal Studies)

- How to educate the social workers who deal with these women, better.

· How social workers are involved with these victims, what role they play.

· How they could be better educated, what do they need to be taught? (Journal of Social Work Education)

- How to insure that the police officers do a better job with dealing with domestic abuse cases.

· How cases like these are handled now. (Journal of Criminal Justice)

· How they need to change the way they pursue the case. (Journal of Criminal Justice)

- Proposing to build more safe shelters for women who are victims of domestic abuse.

· How many shelters exist now and how they help. (Defending Our Lives)

· How many should exist to be affective. (Defending Our Lives)

In-Class Essay #3

I have chosen to write my paper about a proposal that would help domestically abused women. Right now, when a woman is abused finding help can be very difficult. A lot of the times police to not respond in a way they should, doctors in hospitals ignore the signs, and there are not very many shelters for abused women to seek refuge in.
This topic is a good fit for me because once I graduate I want to go out into the community and help people who are struggling either physically or mentally and this topic will help explore on aspect of my future career. Also I chose to write my paper on this topic because I feel that it is very important to society to be aware of these issues. I feel that I can bring a different look upon these issues because I am younger than most of the people who have previously researched and written about them.
I have never experienced or known anyone personally who has experienced domestic abuse but I feel that I have seen and heard enough from various news reports and personal testimony from a few women to understand how awful the protection system for these women is. I want to make sure that anyone who reads my paper can see how awful it is and realize that something serious needs to be done to help these women. They do not deserve this kind of treatment and if they are receiving it, society should do everything they can to protect them from it.

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Analysis of "Common Sense"

I have always heard about the common sense pamphlets that were circulating during the revolution, in history classes throughout the years but I have never been interested in reading them. Now that I had to read them I am glad I did. The words that Thomas Paine had to say were very motivating and interesting. While reading them I wanted to get up and do something to help shape the government into a better one for today’s world. I didn’t understand all of it because it was written in old English but I understood enough of it because he wrote it in a way that the common person of that day would be able to understand. He brings up some very good points about how absurd it is to think the king to be wiser then all other people, how there were no kings according to the early scripture, and how God disproves of having kings and calls having kings a sin of the Jews.

It is very absurd to think that a man, as equal as everyone else, could be any wiser then a man who owns a farm or works in a carpentry shop. God made all man equal according to the scriptures and man himself has no right to declare him more powerful then all other men. The king is shut off from the world and has no idea how things are so he/she has no knowledge of what should be done which is what complicates the whole thing. Although this is one fact against kingdoms, absurdity is not the only valid one.

According to early scriptures there were no kings around. In fact there were no kings for 3000 years, until the Jews requested one, and everything ran smoothly. Having no kings meant no wars; according to Thomas Paine “it is the pride of the king that throws mankind into confusion”, causing wars. In fact Holland had no king around this time era and they had enjoyed more peace than any other monarchial government in Europe in that past century, according to Thomas Paine.

Not only does it not mention having kings in the early scriptures but it is mentioned that having kings is a sin of the Jews and that God highly disproves of the matter. Scripture says that “government which is so impiously prerogative of Heaven”. Thomas Paine mentions that kings were first introduced to the world by Heathens. “It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. They started out paying great respect to their dead kings and it evolved from there into worshiping the living kings.

Thomas Paine uses all of these facts to attack his enemies. He put down their way of government in every way he knew how and in turn he got a lot of support from the colonists. The things he mentions in his pamphlets are not only riveting to the colonists but they are true which is what hurt the British government’s chances the most.

Common Sense Website