A vital part of understanding a social problem, and a precursor to preventing it, is an understanding of what causes it. The causes of violence against women have consisted of two lines of study: examination of the characteristics that influence the behavior of offenders and consideration of whether some women have a heightened vulnerability to victimization. Study should be sought for causal factors at various levels of analysis, including individual, dyadic, institutional, and social.
Studies of offending and victimization remain conceptually distinct except in socio cultural analysis in which joint consideration is often given to two complementary processes: those that influence men to be aggressive and channel their expressions of violence toward women and those that position women for receipt of violence and operate to silence them afterwards. Many theorists have sought to answer the question, "Why does this particular man batter or sexually assault?" (Bachman, 1994) By looking at single classes of influences.
Many of the studies about the ways of perpetrating violence against women are drawn from the literature on aggression and general violence. Both the study on general violence and that on violence against women suggest that violence arises from interactions among individual biological and psychosocial factors and social processes. But it is not known how much overlap there is in the development of violent behavior against women and other violent behavior. The problem of violence against women has gained increasing attention in recent years, but the scope and magnitude of the problem are the subjects of on-going debates.....
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