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1.A The social issue I chose to focus on is Domestic Abuse. An ever-growing issue in the United States, despite its label as cruel and non-legal continues to exist in households from mild to severe. Over 4000 women a year die at the hands of their husbands, and a woman is more likely to die at the hands of her husband than anyone else. This number only includes women, and all victims deserve to be heard and seen. An estimated 2.4 million adults were polled to have experienced domestic abuse in some form, in a study from March 2022. 1. I chose to focus on the Anthropological side of the topic, as psychologically there are dozens of reasons that can cause or affect how one handles negative stimuli in their life, including aggression. Anthropology can really ne in on the culture and norms of each household, as well as the extenuating factors such as religion, economics, etc. Religion can lead one to have false beliefs that their wives and children are property and not people, and they can treat them how they wish. Economic stress can also have a heavy effect on one’s behavior, and how they handle stress. In this sense, all of the social science principles come into play. Beliefs and values determine one’s value for non-violence and family life. And the consequences for acts of wrath, such as violence against one’s spouse or kids. Social norms in some areas can make it a learned behavior that has been observed for one’s entire life, rather than an actual lash-out of pure rage. It can also normalize other behaviors that can feed into

violence and aggression overall in how we handle emotional issues. Social Roles really come in with the gender-normative ideals of household and having a man as a provider, which can add a lot of stress in today’s age where it's near impossible to live off of one income for two people. IV. Bartolomei, M. R. (2015). Domestic violence and human rights: An anthropological view. Ex aequo , 31 , 91-104. Wolfe, D. A., Crooks, C. V., Lee, V., McIntyre-Smith, A., & Jaffe, P. G. (2003). The effects of children's exposure to domestic violence: A meta-analysis and critique. Clinical child and family psychology review , 6 , 171-187. Motz, A. (2014). Toxic couples: The psychology of domestic violence . Routledge. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2016, August 6). STRYVE Program . Division of Violence Prevention. Retrieved July 23, 2023, from https://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/stryve/ Camacho, C. M., & Alarid, L. F. (2008). The significance of the victim advocate for domestic violence victims in municipal court. Violence and Victims , 23 (3), 288-300. I.B. The first source listed in my previous question’s answer is a great resource for the anthropological statistics and facts surrounding domestic violence as a topic and lays a

framework for the rest of my argument, as rather than lean to one side or another it simply informs of the undeniable. The second resource hones in on my research question topic: how to prevent domestic abuse before it starts by learning what makes children violent or aggressive. In learning the effects of children that are victims, in turn, we learn about those who reflect those behaviors later in life, and how they got there along the way. I also have been using prevention and victims advocacy programs to learn more about local resources and prevention techniques that are already in use. Each source is relevant and provides good information for both sides of my theory, and are similar in the way they present information in a non-emotional way, however, each source also tackles different factions of the topic and different perspectives regarding it. III.A Research Question: What are the effects of easily-available advocacy and prevention programs for domestic violence victims, and do they prevent further abuse? III.B. The next steps for a social scientist would be to look into local advocacy and prevention groups and find out their rates of use in comparison to the abuse rates in the area. With this, they can determine if the program is known about, easy to access, etc. From there they can talk to those who have been through the program or received help, and their current state after the fact, and their experiences with the program as a whole.

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