Family Violence and Intimate-Partner Abuse

Family Violence and Intimate Partner Abuse
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Family Violence and Intimate Partner Abuse
Over the years, there have been efforts made towards solving the issue of family violence and intimate partner violence, and researchers have been at the forefront in collecting data on the same. The media ranging from popular magazines and televisions, have been at the forefront of bringing viewers family violence incidents in the community. Statistics have shown that there are cases of both men and women victims in intimate partner relationships; however, there are more men offenders in intimate relationships than female individuals. Also, Law enforcement agencies are a rich source of data from their reports on family violence, including the National Crime Victimization Survey and the American Humane Society. Also, the Violence Against Women Act plays a significant role in changing the criminal justice system with information on crimes of violence against women. In the case of Marcia and Mitchell, the husband abuses his wife both physically and emotionally, which might have affected the wife's mental wellness resulting in his killing. However, it was still lawfully wrong for Marcia to take the law into her hands and take a life.
Marcia's verdict can be made against her for different reasons. Several factors are said to be contributing to intimate partner violence. IN the case of Marcia, her husband only got violent when he was intoxicated. When sober, he and his wife got along well. In this situation, the substance Abuse Theory can be applied to draw judgment in Marcia's trial. The theory holds that drugs or alcohol is a major cause of family violence and intimate partner abuse (Wallace et al., 2019). This theory holds that the substances taken impair an individual's judgment, which leads to violent acts. Mitchell was drunk when he committed violent acts towards his wife. This implies that the wife is guilty of committing the crime since the husband was intoxicated and thus not in the right mental state, but she had not taken any drugs implying that she committed the crime very consciously. However, the criminal justice system holds that substances are not a cause of family violence but are used to commit violent acts. Many people drink and abuse their partners, and their change when sober might conclude that the violence is due to the intoxication. Despite intoxication, men need to be punished if they abuse their partners, whether they committed the act while intoxicated or not.
The plea of Marcia that the killing was a result of self-defense requires the victim to be in fear that the offender will inflict deadly harm to them at that particular point. During the time of the killing, Marcia took the children to the grandmother's house before going back home and killing the husband with a gun. The actions of Marcia before she killed her husband imply that it was premeditated. Imminent peril did not exist to the victim at the particular time that the shot was fired. The law required that peril appears to the victim as both present and immediate rather than prospective or in the future (Wallace et al., 2019). Marcia first took her child to the grandmother'...