Invisible violence - when a woman is an executioner: review of the studies

• Authors: Kempińska, Urszula

Abstracts

EN

Domestic violence is a global issue that crosses national borders, as well as socio-economic, cultural, racial and class differences. This problem is widely dispersed geographically, which made it typical and tolerated in many social environments. The violence used by an intimate partner Intimate Partner Violence is a currently accepted term used to describe "violence in family" or "domestic violence". IPV is traditionally understood as a crime committed by strong, dominant men against vulnerable women. This issue appears regularly in public debates, the media and scientific studies. However, the violence used by women against men is still a taboo subject. Research on this phenomenon is still rare. However, domestic violence exerted by women is a reality, it occurs virtually in every society, although to a different degree. The aim of the article is to show the violence against men exerted by women, as well as the causes and effects of the phenomenon. Institutional forms of support for men - victims of violence - in selected French-speaking countries were also presented. The article is based on the monographic method - the analysis of available scientific sources (published in English, French and Polish) describing the phenomenon being diagnosed

Keywords

EN

violence against men; conditions; effects; types of IPV; support opportunities

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 5(2)
• Pages: 89-101

Dates

published

2019-01-23

Contributors

author

Kempińska, Urszula

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0012.9679