Theories Of Estic Violence

estic violence is basically any behavior that involves violence or any kind of abuse by a person against another practically in a domestic setting, for instance in marriage or cohabitation. This particular behavior can take place in heterosexual or even same-sex family relationships, and involving children violence in the family. This behavior also takes various forms ranging from physical, verbal, emotional, economic, religious, and sexual abuse, which can include subtle such as , coercive forms to marital rape and to violent physical abuse such as female genital mutilation and so on. The victims of domestic violence are in most cases women. Domestic violence is a social injustice, that if left unchecked, could result in negative effects …show more content…
The guidelines are able to give fair assessment on what one is up against. The law enforcement officers are less able to take situational and circumstantial factors into consideration when executing their duties but instead they are required to use range of legislations clause in exercising their duties and discretions. In relation to domestic violence, if there is probable cause to believe an individual indeed was involved in it, the statute demands an individual be arrested as long as the responding officer follows the due process as per the laws. In some cases, ethic of care is applicable in decision-making, for instance in many some situation across the united states we have encountered law enforcement officer seeking to know the people or circumstances involved in the situation. This shows that not all those who commit crime should be arrested but can be helped through other means. However, virtues such as compassion, mercy, tolerance, and benevolence is applicable too in law enforcement. Failure to arrest an offender or a suspect the statute demands that the law enforcement officer to face a disciplinary …show more content…
Is seeking to understand and knowing the needs and interests of others and taking them into consideration in moral reasoning. It emphasizes on moral character rather than duties and consequences of doing certain kinds of actions or bringing about certain types of consequences. Tennessee statute hinder law enforcement officers from exercising ethic of care since it gives guideline on what is expected of law by considering the consequences the action may pose to other people. An action undertaken by an officer require justification failure to do so, the officer is most likely to face a disciplinary action for not conforming to law. Although the law enforcement officers have discretionary powers which they can exercise in their line of duties as stipulated by the