| Of all of the violent crimes in the world, domestic | | | | expect it to be that way. |
| violence seems to be the one that is the least | | | | Many of these women who have otherwise |
| serious when it comes to punishment. Domestic | | | | wonderful lives are forced into a situation that offers |
| violence victims are often hiding and not reporting | | | | them only two choices: stay and take it, or leave and |
| crimes that are happening for fear of their lives and | | | | give up everything that you've worked so hard for |
| their own well being, or seem to be perfectly | | | | to become homeless. When children are involved, it |
| content to give up their lives to become homeless as | | | | becomes even more serious of a situation, because |
| a means of escaping this situation. Why are the | | | | the children inherently become homeless, as well. It |
| offenders of this crime going free, when they should | | | | should not be families that are forced to give up their |
| be serving mandatory prison sentences because of | | | | lives to run away and hide. It should be offenders |
| the heinous nature of the crime? | | | | that think that beating their victim is okay that are |
| Women around the world are suffering because of | | | | locked up in jail for a serious crime and equally serious |
| this popular and under-punished crime. Children and | | | | punishment, and not released until they have been |
| young adults are raised in a society where this is | | | | rehabilitated. |
| simply an acceptable form of torture for many, | | | | Put them into a special prison with other domestic |
| because no one will take them very seriously in this | | | | violence offenders. If there isn't room in the current |
| matter. By not taking offenders more seriously, the | | | | system, build them their own facility. Let them live |
| public justice system has basically shown the world | | | | with a bunch of other offenders and let them |
| that it's okay to beat women, and that if you are a | | | | become victims, even if only for a minute. Support |
| battered woman, you need to leave and start over | | | | them with anger management and other classes that |
| somewhere else. Someone commits animal abuse and | | | | can help bolster their own self esteem so that they |
| it lands them in jail for at least 6 to 12 months or | | | | don't take out their issues on their spouses and/or |
| more. If a man beats his wife, he's generally off the | | | | children. It seems fair enough to at least hold them |
| hook or at least out on probation in no time at all. | | | | accountable for something. |
| Prisons are overcrowded and room needs to be | | | | Either way, victims need to get out of the situation |
| saved for the serious offenders. It is what people | | | | that they are in. They deserve more justice and |
| are told all the time. How serious does a situation | | | | better support in their situation than just being |
| have to be when a person is harming another human | | | | separated from their batterer long enough to pack |
| being to the point of severe injury and mental | | | | up their lives and leave. If the offense was taken |
| intimidation on a daily basis? Law enforcement will | | | | seriously, and offenders were jailed for a REAL crime |
| show up and do the same thing that they always do: | | | | and a real sentence, victims might feel a little less like |
| give the offender a night in jail or two so that the | | | | they just have to deal with it and do what it takes |
| victim can pack up her things and leave. | | | | to make the best of it. When society and the |
| Why does the victim have to be the one leaving? | | | | current justice system teaches our young women |
| She didn't do anything wrong. Now, giving a woman | | | | and children that this is an acceptable situation and |
| this ultimatum further proves to them that it's okay | | | | the only resolution is for them to leave, what are |
| for this to happen in the eyes of the law, but she's | | | | they really being taught? Without a change in the |
| got to leave if she wants it to stop. No one should | | | | system, that's the message that's being sent, |
| ever have to live like this and especially not someone | | | | whether anyone will admit it or not. Do you really |
| who is being abused physically and mentally to the | | | | want the children of the world growing up to see the |
| point where their life is turned upside down. Victims | | | | system failing battered victims and becoming victims |
| leave their homes to stay with friends and relatives, | | | | themselves? The current system is teaching victims |
| or end up on the streets, becoming another statistic | | | | and offenders alike the same thing: if you've got a |
| in the sad world of domestic violence crimes. Many | | | | problem with violence and don't want to wind up |
| never receive the help that they need, which allows | | | | facing serious jail time, beat your spouse, not your |
| them to go on with their lives being battered from | | | | pets. If they don't like it, they'll leave. |
| one relationship to the next because they simply | | | | |