Deadly_Love

Deadly Love Deadly Love Imagine an American football star racing down the freeway in a white Ford Bronco being chased by news crews and police sirens. A decade ago, this scenario would have sounded like a clever advertisement campaign for Ford Motor Vehicles. However, if you were to play the same scenario around 1994, almost every American would vividly recall the death of Nicole Simpson, and her ex-husband, O. J. Simpson, fleeing from the police. This single event thrust the serious and deadly topic of domestic violence awareness into the spotlight. Although domestic violence occurs in many types of relationships, government and academic studies deduce that the majority of victims in heterosexual relationships are female and that batterers in heterosexual relationships are overwhelmingly male (Bureau of Justice Statistics 21). Battering also occurs in lesbian and gay relationships and the use of gender specific languages should not be construed to mean that domestic violence only occurs in heterosexual relationships. However, the majority of domestic violence cases list the male as the perpetrator and the female as the victim. Neither victims nor perpetrators have any set criteria. However, perpetrators display at least two common traits. The majority of violence, victim, phase, domestic, perpetrator, abuse, victims, however, children, women, relationships, one, occurs, perpetrators, treatment, partner, out, least, guilty, after, year, violent, times, threats, things, statistics, return, program, myth, male, majority, heterosexual, female, during, defendant