Violance Against Women Act Analysis
The Violance Against Women Act
The purpose of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is to end with the violence against women in the U.S and to protect women from old notions, laws and social practices that have been to justify this violence. Some of the results and goals of the VAWA were: it changed the criminal justice system, victims of any type of violence got more access to services, new federal crimes related to violence were establish(Violance Against Women, 2013). In addition, VAWA helped preventing violence in America’s families and supported the detection of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
VAWA passed the congress in 1994, then it was improved and reauthorized in 2000 and 2005. Some of these improvements on the law were: increment on protection to immigrant victims, service to children and teenagers, more programs and services for people with disabilities, more prevention programs and information and the creation of more legal assistance …show more content…
There were some controversies related to immigration and identity politics discussed by the Senate (Peralta, 2012). Due to discussion between democrats and republicans regarding what to put or take off the law, the bill is still waiting for approval. Statistics have shown the effectiveness and confirmed the benefits that VAWA brought to society. As an example, the percentage of women who reported violence was greater in 1998 than in 1993 (Violance Against Women, 2013). The access to services that prevents and protects women from violence has helped thousands of women in the U.S who didn’t have this choice before. Immigrant women as well as any other women regardless their race or social class have the same rights to receive protection from violence. In my opinion the decision of the reauthorization of the law has to be out of political interests and differences on political parties
The purpose of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is to end with the violence against women in the U.S and to protect women from old notions, laws and social practices that have been to justify this violence. Some of the results and goals of the VAWA were: it changed the criminal justice system, victims of any type of violence got more access to services, new federal crimes related to violence were establish(Violance Against Women, 2013). In addition, VAWA helped preventing violence in America’s families and supported the detection of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
VAWA passed the congress in 1994, then it was improved and reauthorized in 2000 and 2005. Some of these improvements on the law were: increment on protection to immigrant victims, service to children and teenagers, more programs and services for people with disabilities, more prevention programs and information and the creation of more legal assistance …show more content…
There were some controversies related to immigration and identity politics discussed by the Senate (Peralta, 2012). Due to discussion between democrats and republicans regarding what to put or take off the law, the bill is still waiting for approval. Statistics have shown the effectiveness and confirmed the benefits that VAWA brought to society. As an example, the percentage of women who reported violence was greater in 1998 than in 1993 (Violance Against Women, 2013). The access to services that prevents and protects women from violence has helped thousands of women in the U.S who didn’t have this choice before. Immigrant women as well as any other women regardless their race or social class have the same rights to receive protection from violence. In my opinion the decision of the reauthorization of the law has to be out of political interests and differences on political parties