Domestic Violence Injunctions in Fort Myers and Cape Coral, Florida
Domestic violence or intimate partner violence (IPV) is “described as the power misused by one adult in a relationship through violence to control another” (National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2008) . The violence may take form through physical , social , financial , sexual , and psychological abuse . Any actions of a partner which aims to control , suppress , or force the other partner is considered as domestic violence . Though there are some male victims involved, majority of the victims are female. In 2015 , the investigation of the Post and Courier revealed that women die at a rate of one in every 12 days because of domestic violence. Their data also showed that more than 300 women in South Carolina alone have been shot , stabbed , strangled , beaten , bludgeoned , or burned to death by men over the past decade. According to Lisa Firestone (2012) in Psychology Today , there are two emotional dynamics which strongly provokes domestic violence . One