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Web Resource: Voices Against Violence Project

Description: Includes various articles that discuss how normalization of rape in TV shows, movies, jokes we hear, etc. perpetuates inequality and injustice.
Learning Objective: 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Web Resource: Parents’ Use of Physical Punishment Increases Violent Behavior Among Youth

Description: This article from the American Psychological Association (APA) summarizes a research study that examined adolescent violence and parents’ use of corporal punishment. Links to additional articles are provided.
Learning Objective: 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Web Resource: Violence Against Women is Not a Cultural Tradition but a Crime

Description: This article discusses domestic violence as not only partner-on-partner violence, but also the cycle of violence against women in any relationship. Examples of cases in the United States and internationally are briefly described. It is proposed that education and teaching of gender studies in school may reduce this perpetuation of disrespect and inequality.
Learning Objective: 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Video Resource: Domestic Violence Victim Jailed

Description: A Florida court judge sentenced a mother for failing to appear at her abusers’ trial. A panel discusses this case and the legal reasoning behind this action.
Learning Objective: 11-2: Discuss how the values of a society might impact intervention and prevention of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Video Resource: What Would You Do? – Domestic Violence and Abuse in Public (Social Experiment)

Description: This social experiment illustrated how bystanders were much more likely to help a woman being physically abused by a man but very few were likely to help a man being physically abused by a woman.
Learning Objectives: 11-2: Discuss how the values of a society might impact intervention and prevention of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships; 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Video Resource: What is Rape Culture?

Description: This video defines rape culture and gives examples of it.
Learning Objectives: 11-2: Discuss how the values of a society might impact intervention and prevention of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships; 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.