Bringing the War Home
Bringing the War Home
A paper on domestic violence in military violence.
Jenna Blackburn
Criminology 333 - Sociology of Gender Violence
Dr. Perkins
*subtitles are in red in support of red Fridays of bring our troops home.
In the military men and women (but for the purposes of this paper I will be referring mostly to men for the majority of our people in the armed forces are males) are trained to kill or be killed. They are trained with this knowledge to use on the battlefield. What researchers are finding more and more are soldiers are bringing these skills home. Along with a mixture of mental illnesses that are going untreated and undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. So why is that men who are willing to lay down their lives for complete strangers are going home to hurt the ones they love the most? And why is that in our society that asks “why women just don’t leave” even more so military wives are taught that’s it’s even more honorable to stay. When in fact there is nothing honorable, loving, or patriotic about taking a beating at the hands of your husband. Who swore an oath to serve and protect this country and to honor and cherish you. We have a duty as a nation to support our troops and to help them but are we neglecting their families? The main points of this paper are to discuss how domestic violence in the military is more prevalent and different than in civilian populations, to discuss the theories of why it is more prevalent in military populations, and what we as a nation are doing to help our soldiers and their families to stop the war in our own homes.
Overview
“National estimates indicate that approximately 1.5 million women and 835,000 men in the United States are physically assaulted or raped by intimated partners. DODs clinical database indicates that 8,223 reported incidents were determined to meet the criteria for domestic abuse in fiscal year 2009.” (DOD's Efforts to Prevent and Treat Domestic
A paper on domestic violence in military violence.
Jenna Blackburn
Criminology 333 - Sociology of Gender Violence
Dr. Perkins
*subtitles are in red in support of red Fridays of bring our troops home.
In the military men and women (but for the purposes of this paper I will be referring mostly to men for the majority of our people in the armed forces are males) are trained to kill or be killed. They are trained with this knowledge to use on the battlefield. What researchers are finding more and more are soldiers are bringing these skills home. Along with a mixture of mental illnesses that are going untreated and undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. So why is that men who are willing to lay down their lives for complete strangers are going home to hurt the ones they love the most? And why is that in our society that asks “why women just don’t leave” even more so military wives are taught that’s it’s even more honorable to stay. When in fact there is nothing honorable, loving, or patriotic about taking a beating at the hands of your husband. Who swore an oath to serve and protect this country and to honor and cherish you. We have a duty as a nation to support our troops and to help them but are we neglecting their families? The main points of this paper are to discuss how domestic violence in the military is more prevalent and different than in civilian populations, to discuss the theories of why it is more prevalent in military populations, and what we as a nation are doing to help our soldiers and their families to stop the war in our own homes.
Overview
“National estimates indicate that approximately 1.5 million women and 835,000 men in the United States are physically assaulted or raped by intimated partners. DODs clinical database indicates that 8,223 reported incidents were determined to meet the criteria for domestic abuse in fiscal year 2009.” (DOD's Efforts to Prevent and Treat Domestic