Sociology. Family and Households

Hanmer and Saunders 
1983. Women’s behaviour is very restricted by fear of men. 59% of women have experienced threaten/violence during the previous year.

Abbott and Wallace
1980. The main trigger for violence is male’s perception that woman is failed in her duties.

Dobash and Dobash
These duties are about sex, money, housework. 31% of women said that there were reasons for hitting them.
Men blame wives (80%) and ignore the beating and act as nothing has happened.
Wives usually don’t end relations after being beaten but can leave home for a while just to escape aggressiveness of husbands and them come back in order to try reestablish relations.
Violence is considered to be normal and accepted part of English Culture.

Borkowsky
Alcohol is leading contributor to domestic violence

Strauss
Violent homes affect children’s future behaviour.