Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
Responsive violence is violence employed by victims of domestic punishment or any other assaults 63 who are making an effort to escape, remain true on their own, stop the assailant’s violence, protect themselves or other people, or retaliate. Its an effort to achieve short-term control in a situation that is violent.
The option to respond to an assault with physical violence is affected by many facets, including:
- The individual’s values and attitudes.
- Whatever they have discovered in their life about whenever violence is and is perhaps perhaps not justifiable.
- The expense and advantages of responding with physical violence. (numerous victims accurately perceive if they fight back or try to defend themselves, and decide that doing so is not worth it that they may be seriously injured. Other people decide that the chance is outweighed because of the have to make an effort to protect on their own and kids.)
Context
Attack (or expected attack) with a abuser.
Gender of actors
How exactly does violence that is responsive from punishment?
- It really is periodic and situational; there’s absolutely no ongoing pattern of managing behavior (except because of the abuser that is the prospective regarding the responsive physical violence).
- It really is followed closely by feelings of fear, desperation or anger, maybe not entitlement.
- Most commonly it is protective, and it is inspired because of the want to:
- Contain or escape the situation that is immediate. 64
- Protect yourself and one’s children.
- Don’t be killed.
- It really is often retaliatory.
- It is usually less injurious than abusive physical violence. (more…)