The research was carried out to investigate intimate violence based on race, class and gender. The research was about links between types of violence. The objective was also to find a solution to this violence.
Background to the research
Feminist exertion on mistreatment on women has uncovered the wide issues about violence like the way the violence reflect gender divisions. In the narrative, it is acknowledged that analysing female experience lacking considering masculinity brings a limited accepting of the nature of violence. There is also rising acknowledgement that practice is configured and used by other divisions. The ways in which these wider divisions meet with other forms of violence have been exposed by noise research on those areas that have not usually been the focus of research. Such investigation ensures a re-think of the ways social relations are understood.
Studies carried out in the past on violence have been mainly on White populations. Other populations have been almost skipped, and where their scenarios have been integrated it has been ways that define them as essentially unexpected. The omission of Black people from much normal theorising is especially irregular, given the way in which Black people in the West are over-represented as victims and offenders within the Criminal Justice System.
There is need to investigate relations between violence within the home and in the community. Feminist study has shown that home is unsafe place for women, children and elderly, and most violence is intra-group, both home and in the community. There is great investigation on Institutional and Criminal Justice responses to violence and redress for its harmful effects.
Objectives of the Research
1. To investigate violence against Black women in intimate relationships, discussing some of the shortcomings in present conceptualisations of the crisis, and also including the view of Black men, and also Black children where possible.
2. To explore the scenery of the relationships and how the violence is understood and explained by both members of the family. There is need of conscious attempt to know how associations are filtered through the scope of race, class and gender.
3. To discover any possible links beyond the interpersonal that may tell the perceptive of violence.
4. To have the way in which the responses of professional and legislative organisations and the Criminal Justice System match the understandings of the nature of violence uncovered in the study.
Methodology
The research uses a case study approach to violence in a single Black community in the UK. The methodology includes:
§ In detail interviews with 30 Black women and men who are implicated in relationships where violence occurs.
§ Talks with the children involved in home violence.
§ Consultation with persons and community organisations that address problems of violence in both home and the community.
§ An examination of the reaction to violence of the Criminal Justice , voluntary and statutory organizations .
Research schedule
Year one: plan of interview schedules; Finalise access arrangements; Conduct Pilot Study with 5 couples, and where feasible with their children.
Year two: Conduct fieldwork.
Year three:
Collate and analyse results; Write-up results and produce research document.
Dissemination of Results
The results will be distributed in a number of ways:
§ Response to participants at the end of the study
§ Articles in relevant journals
§ Donations at conferences and presentations at fora within the University
§ Production of comprehensive research document in book form
Works Cited
Xavier Guadalupe. “An Exploration of the Influences of Race, Class and Gender Identity on” Site, scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2142/. 2010
