Violence Against Women: State, National, and Global Perspectives UCF School of Social Work Mary E. Dillon, Ed.D, MSW

Sourcebook on Violence Against Women Chapter’s 3 & 4: An Overview CH. 3 Questions to ask ourselves: Does this trauma victim in the emergency department need assistance beyond attending to her physical injuries? Should this perpetrator be put on probation or sentenced to jail? How can this victim become safe? Are the children in this family being exposed to and traumatized by the abuse of their parent? For us to make a determination, the level of risk helps determine the best safety planning actions.

Recidivism Risk Sadly, few batters serve long jail sentences. Many perpetrators of intimate partner violence who are identified by law enforcement are either not prosecuted at all; are punished with probation, fines, or diversion to batterers programs; or are released early on parole. Page 58, How does the US look compared to the rest of the developed countries.

Safety Planning: Helping Victims Avoid Battering and Batters Page 63: Safety plans are the most popular tools to help victims. They serve the goal of risk management, which is a common coping response to all kinds of bad events, not just violence against women. The goal is to help victims minimize the risk of future violence, especially severe and injurious violence.

Safety Plans: Some Available Choices Page 63: Personalized Safety Plans: This has many several facets: 1) Safety during a violent incident, 2) safety when preparing to leave, 3) safety in my own residence, 4) safety with a protection order (my question is, do they help or cause the batterer to become more incensed which may lead to murder?) 5) safety on the job and in public, 6) safety and drug or alcohol use, 7) safety and my emotional health, and items to take when leaving; just to name a few. See suggestions on page 63. leadin

Conclusion of Chapter 3 Let’s discuss why violence against women remain a sensitive and often stigmatized topic, and many cases will remain unidentified if victims and perpetrators must initiate self-identification.

Chapter 4: Sexual Harassment Page 75: Around the globe, the unwanted sexual attention of men is a common condition of employment and education for women and girls. The experience is universal---transcending all levels of socioeconomic and educational status and cutting across most national and cultural identities.

Sexual Harrassment Against Women at Work The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines sexual harassment as: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

The Globalization of Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy Page 77: Although approaches vary, prohibitions