a delightful caprice ([info]crafting_change) wrote in [info]feminist_101,
@ 2008-03-30 22:40:00
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Ending Domestic Violence
Does anyone else have any resources for Transformative Justice and how it could relate to domestic violence/intimate partner violence? I am doing my research paper on the wrongheaded (and band-aid approach) to domestic violence and am looking for established practices on battling the patriarchal mindset, and moving away from the criminal justice system. Anything about community outreach specifically on intervening in patriarchal culture.

I've got the criminal justice side down, and initial statistics... it is just I can't be the only one who has thought that teaching abusers to not abuse is the key to solving the problem.


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[info]redstar826
2008-03-31 02:55 am UTC (link)
that teaching abusers to abuse is the key to solving the problem.


I can't help with your question, but I just wanted to point out that I think the above statement is missing a "not"

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[info]crafting_change
2008-03-31 02:56 am UTC (link)
ugh, thanks for spotting that!
looking at these statistics is ruining my mind

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[info]dith
2008-03-31 03:02 pm UTC (link)
i think a lot of domestic violence is a spiritual situation almost. well of course it's psychological. it's all about taking pain out on those the most inferiorized, such as women. violence is always about past pain unleashed unto another who is blamed for the violence. i'm not sure about the resources. i think the criminal justice system could be of use if it focused on psychological trauma and recovery and rehabilitation. course that will never happen in this day in age.

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[info]crafting_change
2008-04-01 12:12 am UTC (link)
What,
this really doesn't make a lot of sense. Abuse is about power and the value people that people carry - thus women and those disempowered suffer a greater amount of abuse.

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[info]dith
2008-04-01 01:35 am UTC (link)
I never said that abuse isn't about power and that women aren't inferiorized and thus disempowered. What I am saying is that domestic violence, a man abusing a woman, comes from pain as well. A man will abuse a woman he loves not just because he simply has power over her (of course this is largely the case). It's not just that he has power over her that causes him to do this; there must be other motivations involved. Most times, the woman is BLAMED for the abuse (such is the case in rape; "she was asking for it") Why are women blamed? What I am saying is that violence stems from a combination of the perpetrator's own personal past pain (past (child) abuse; failure; whatever it may be) that is projected outward onto the woman who is perceived to be to blame. The man may not know that these unconscious pains are also causing him to abuse, in combination with a patriarchial, militarized culture. This is also the situation in which mothers (or fathers) abuse their children (past pain projected unconsciously unto children; the child acting up to to blame for their violence). Most abusers come from abusers.

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