Societal Violence

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Societal Violence
Violence against women prevents them from having fundamental freedoms and is a barrier to the achievement of equality between them and men. Since it is a human right, states have to come up with modes of prevention, investigation, and punishment. The violence takes forms that vary in characteristics targeting the physical and psychological state of the victims and includes adverse sexual conduct. The manifestation of the vice could be private or public through coercion and limitation of liberty. Vulnerable women include those from the minority, refugees, indigenous, migrants and with disabilities.
Collection of data on this type of domestic violence faces hurdles since most of the cases remain unreported and some populations are inaccessible. Two forms of data collection that are prevalent include surveys based on populace and service. Both involve qualitative and quantitative methods. Studies that revolve around the society involve interviewing of women on their plight as victims and are useful for gauging the extent of prevalence in the general population. Selection of the sample has to be random for the success of this method. Information gathered from private agencies that work with abused women constitutes the service-based data acquisition method.
Sources of information include health institutions, police stations, courts, public service bodies tasked with housing, social welfare, and organizations dealing with violence victims can provide the data.

Associations of women lawyers and advocacy groups are an example of such bodies (Arooma and Ruuskanen 11). Emergency calls on helplines also serve as a reliable source of data on the vice and the organized prosecution offices keep records of the forms of cases that they handle. Reports from death investigators and existing restraining orders provide crucial information and data.
Works Cited
Arooma Kauko and Ruuskanen Elina. Administrative data collection on domestic violence in Council of Europe member states. Council of Europe. Strasbourg, 2008. Print.