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C. Doan

UWRT 1104

13 November 2017

Annotated Bibliography

1.) Finley, Laura L. Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault in Popular Culture. , 2016. Internet

resource.

Domestic violence can occur in a variety of ways, but the gist of it is when a partner or

family member seeks dominant control of their partners life through emotional, financial, and/or

physical abuse. The book focuses on how rape is a misconception for a lot of people and how

they normalize it because of how common the offences happen. Popular media has also played a

role in the increase of violence due to how it is portrayed as entertainment. As a result, victims

then suffer from life-long trauma even turning to alcohol or drugs.

My topic is on domestic violence and how one can help to prevent it from happening.

This book is relevant to my topic as it introduces all the aspects of what domestic violence is and

possibilities as to why it is happening. In order to solve a problem, I first have to understand

what the problem is. Although I was aware that these crimes happened throughout the world I

had no idea how often it happens. I learned that dating violence can stem by the age of twelve all

the way to adulthood, therefore I think it is important to inform to children about the severity and

impacts that violence can cause. By reading this, I have a better understanding of why victims

act as they do and why abusers use violence as a tactic. The book ties back to my topic by
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providing me with perspectives from victims views along with perpetrators which makes it

possible for me to understand and help them.

This book is written by Laura Finley who has also written and/or contributed to seven

other books relating to social justice topics. Finley attended Western Michigan University where

she obtained a BA in Secondary Education, an MA in Education and Professional Development,

and a PH.D. in Sociology. While teaching social topics and writing books about them, Finley

also attends conferences where she addresses issues pertaining to human rights, domestic

violence, or any other social issue. Along with these practices, she actively participates in

services that aid victims of violence.

2.) Jacobson, Neil S, and John M. Gottman. When Men Batter Women: New Insights into

Ending Abusive Relationships. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Print.

The book runs several studies on victims of domestic violence and uses the data that they

found to better understand what it is like for the victims. They compared abusive violent couples

with unhappy nonviolent marriages and were able to study the effects of stress or any other

factors that may make a couple unhappy. The purpose of this research is to prove that all

batterers are not alike, but from their results, batterers seem to fall into one of two categories.

Basically the book is the overall results of long term studies that researchers ran to gain deeper

insight of what kinds of people they are dealing with or going to deal with.

This source is relevant to my topic, preventing domestic violence, because it provides

detailed research and experiments of actual domestic violent relationships. While reading this, I

noticed that the researchers strongly focused on the numerous emotional states of the couples

rather than studying only the negative emotions, which is normally what other studies have
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focused on. I learned that ordinary anger is actually a positive function in a relationship and

results in the couples progress towards resolving the issues. In comparison to belligerent forms

of anger which can do a lot of emotional damage to a relationship. After reading this, I realized

that it might be helpful to heavily focus on the emotional state of victims and starting the healing

process from within.

John Gottman is widely known for his work on marital stability and has conducted forty

years of groundbreaking research with thousands of couples. John is the co-founder of Gottman

Institute alongside his wife. He has been awarded numerous awards some being: Four National

Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Awards, The American Association for Marriage

and Family Therapy Distinguished Research Scientist Award, The American Psychological

Association Division of Family Psychology, Presidential Citation for Outstanding Lifetime

Research Contribution, and a few others. The co-author of this book, Neil Jacobson is a professor

of Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington. He earned his bachelors degree from

the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in psychology from the University of North

Carolina. Jacob and Neil were colleagues and each wrote several books relating to marital issues

and myths.

3. Jenkins, Pamela, and Barbara P. Davidson. Stopping Domestic Violence: How a

Community Can Prevent Spousal Abuse. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

2001. Print.

This book is about how social services, law enforcements, and advocates approach

domestically violent situations. If domestic violence is an issue in the community, it is important

to have guidelines, policies and proper ongoing training. Law enforcement is usually the first to
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arrive at any incident, but there are more steps that need to be taken in order to ensure the victims

well-being. Domestic violence causes long term effects for abusers and victims, therefore social

workers, organizations, the community, and law enforcers have to be cautious when responding

to incidents. The book also introduces several laws that have been implemented in hopes to

prevent violent outbreaks.

My topic is on how domestic violence can be prevented or reduced and this source is

relevant to my topic as it introduces different policies that have already been implemented. I

learned that how an advocate reacts to the situation is merely as important as actually getting

help for the victim. I think that victims of domestic abuse lack trust in anybody because of what

theyve been through and I learned that every case is different so one set approach to the problem

is not the answer. I believe that is only right to properly train officers and social workers on how

to thoroughly evaluate the problem and how to work accordingly towards the victims safety.

Pamela Jenkins is the founding faculty member of the UNOs Center of Hazard

Assessment, Response and Technology. She researches problems that communities face and how

they approach these problems. Jenkins has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Louisiana State and works

in the Womens Studies Program. Along with that, she has studied several local and national

efforts on community safety and involves herself in practices that prevent domestic violence.

4.) Macy, RJ, MC Giattina, NJ Montijo, and DM Ermentrout. "Domestic Violence and

Sexual Assault Agency Directors' Perspectives on Services That Help Survivors." Violence

against Women. 16.10 (2010): 1138-61. Print.

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Agency directors have recorded services that have shown to be most beneficial for

victims of domestic violence and sexual assaults. By interviewing survivors, researchers got a

better understanding of which services were important to continue on. However, with the lack of

government funding there are barriers for these services which results in limited help for

survivors. Overall the data analysis emphasizes the necessity of these community based

programs for victims.

This source correlates back to my topic because it is direct opinions from survivors on

how they find these programs helpful and what they think needs to be changed for better safety. I

learned that there are four outstanding services: 24 hour crisis lines, counseling, support groups

and legal advocacy. Im not sure how these crisis lines works, but I think that the people who

respond to these calls should be properly trained. Responders have to be very cautious of what

they say or do around the survivors, so everyone advice is crucial. I also believe that government

funding should not be a problem for these services. It is a governments job to protect its people;

therefore, there shouldnt be a problem.

There are four authors to this journal, Rebecca Macy, Mary Giattina, Natalie Montijo,

and Dania Ermentrout. Rebecca Macy graduated from University of Washington in Seattle and

received a doctoral degree in social welfare. With that degree she began teaching as an associate

professor in the School of Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill. Mary Giattina obtained her Masters

at UNC Chapel Hill in Social Working in 2007 and is manager at a psychiatric hospital. She

serves as a Victim Advocate while providing group, individual, or family therapy. Next is

Natalie Montijo who has a Masters in Social Work from University of North Carolina Chapel

Hill. She is the director of Project STAR, a place of rehabilitation for victims of violent homes.

Montijo also runs researches on classifying what makes these interventions helpful for women
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and children. Lastly Dania Ermentrout, a clinical instructor at School of Social Work at

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She has studied and researched topics including

prevention of violence, the communitys effort to provide, and how to improve programs.

Ermentrout currently manages the evaluation of psychoeducational therapeutic intervention.

5.) Mantel, Barbara. "Domestic Violence." CQ Researcher, 15 Nov. 2013, pp. 981-1004,

library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2013111500

The article tackles the many different ways that domestic violence can be prevented by

figuring out which of those is safest. With the help of shelters, proper training programs, and

intervention organizations the reported incidents have decreased, but the problem is still not

eliminated. Researchers also look into the impacts that domestic violence has on children in

those homes. The article then mentions several approaches that may not have worked in the past

that needs to be brought to attention.

By taking a look at this article, I learned that government funds are being cut or limited

from programs that have showed significant help for victims. I think that it is devastating that the

government doesnt see the importance of their peoples health and safety. Ive learned that these

researchers have come up with ideas that can reduce domestic violence, but havent implemented

these plans because they take too much time or out of budget. It all ties back to my inquiry

topic because it is an example of a social problem with little being done. Although there isnt one

solution to end the problem, a cut in budget for these people is not right.

Barbara Mantel graduated from Northwestern University and does the economic reports

for television news programs along with being contributing writer at the national print and online

magazine of CQ Researcher. She covers several different social topics such as teen suicide,
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obesity cancer treatment, etc. Barbara Mantel has been awarded the Front Page Award,

Population Institutes Global Media Award and has professional memberships to the Society of

Professional Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

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