Researching the History of a Specific Crime



Researching the History of a Specific Crime

Introduction

The legislation in US has been expanding rapidly in the 21st century, as it shields the violations of the citizens and their properties against the burglary, murder, rape, and several other crimes. There are several restricted activities and crimes as well as appropriate punishments for those crimes under the law. The research mainly focuses the crimes related to domestic violence and abuse. The offenders of the domestic violence are punished under the Domestic Abuse Act. The punishments for domestic violence have been established in the past 30 years, along the diverse tracks that are deterrence or criminal punishment of batterers, restraining orders, and batterer treatment. These punishments are designed to defend victims against the crimes and the policy tracks for the domestic crimes are informed, advanced, and effective.

The Domestic Violence and Abusive Crimes

There are different types of domestic crimes whose definitions vary with their contexts in terms of their relevance. The domestic criminal behaviors can be defined by the patterns of coercive or assaultive behaviors of sexual, physical, and psychological attacks, which may also include the use of economic coercion against the intimate partners of the criminals. The criminal laws define domestic violence as the criminal offense engaging the physical threat or harm, which is committed by a member of the family against the other. The legal definitions described for the specific acts or conducts across the various states of US are subjected to criminal and civil actions depending upon sections of the state's code (Child Protection from Domestic Violence and Sex Offenders Act, US department of justice, 1995).

The States' Definitions for the Domestic Violence

The forty six states declare the domestic violences as the civil statutes that are found in social service laws and domestic relation laws to provide the protection for the victims through civil protective services and orders. The other definitions for the domestic violence are the actions or attempt for causing injury or threat to the family member. The specific languages vary considerably in different states to define domestic abuse and family violence. The occurrence of the domestic violences in the twenty four state of US are followed by the acts of

Attempting or causing harm (physical or mental) to a family member.

Placing a family member in fear of the harm that may be physical or mental

Attempting or forcing to engage a member of the family in involuntary sex.

Frightening, threatening, terrorizing, molesting, harassing, and intimidating the family members by engaging them in some activities

(Domestic violence in their civil laws, 2011)

The forty states specifies statutes for the constitute of domestic violence among which the most common are battery, sexual assault, serious injury or physical harm, harassment, threatening victim, trespassing, kidnapping, stalking, and unlawful restraining. The eleven states define the domestic violences or threats against animal owned by a victim and killing or injuring animals to harass the victim. Most states including Montana has a violent acts commission against individual residing in the children's home, which are ...