Lastly, another limitation of feminist perspective is the fact that it framed the issue of intimate partner violence only in term of heterosexual relationships while neglecting violence that occur within lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, and queer relationships. Some studies suggest that intimate partner violence in homosexual relationship occurs at the same rate …show more content…
Some research that was done on the police-citizens relation focuses on the use of police discretion by not only investigating factors affecting the likelihood of laying a criminal charge, but also examine to extent to which other types of police behaviour can be predicted of the basis of the officer, encounter, citizens and situational factors (Schulenberg, 2015). According to Schulenberg, research on police discretion find the legal and extralegal factors influencing the arrest decisions, which he suggests, can be categorized in individual, organizational, community, and situational predictors. Legal factors are what the law allows for an arrest or charge, while the extralegal are “features of the situation that are prohibited or not explicitly authorized by the law as relevant to the arrest decision or legal proceedings” (Schulenberg, …show more content…
Jewkes argues that alcohol is thought to reduce self-consciousness, cloud judgment, and impair ability to interpret social situation. In addition, she points out that man are more likely to act violently when drunk because they do not feel the will held responsible for their violent behaviour (Jewkes, 2002). Moreover, social norms happen to have a link to intimate partner violence. Many researchers have addressed intimate violence as learned social behaviour for both males and females, according to Jewkes. She explains that the intergenerational cycle has been research in many sitting. For example, the sons of women who are beaten as children are more likely to abuse their intimate partner. By the same token, women who are abuse in their childhood are more likely to be abused by their intimate partners as adults. Jewkes concludes that experiences of domestic violence teach children that violence is a normal behaviour in certain situation. In this way, she argues, men leaned to use violence and women learn how to tolerated the violent behaviour (Jewkes,