Can protection orders truly prevent intimate partner violence

Can protection orders truly prevent intimate partner violence

Topic: Analyze whether or not protection orders can truly prevent intimate partner violence. Change Question Word count: 450-500

Analyze whether or not protection orders can truly prevent intimate partner violence

Topic: Analyze whether or not protection orders can truly prevent intimate partner violence.

Change Question Word count: 450-500

Use the following source: Family and Intimate Partner Violence: Heavy Hands by Denise Kindschi Gosselin, 6th edition

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Do Orders of Protection Actually Shield Domestic Violence Victims?

In December, 2017, Madonna McGuire was killed in her Florida home by her estranged husband, who then killed himself.

Shaekeya Gay was shot to death in August 2017 outside her job in North Carolina by her estranged boyfriend of two years, with whom she’d lived. He’s now facing charges for her murder.

In June 2016, Stephanie Goodloe was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend in the bedroom of her home in Washington, DC. He was arrested and charged with murder.

Cassie Wagner was murdered in Oregon in September 2014 by her ex-boyfriend of 11 years.

Aside from being examples of incidents of domestic violence that ended tragically, the above situations have another fact in common: In each case, the victim had a protective order against the man who ultimately ended her life.

So, if you were an abused woman and read these kinds of stories, would you even bother getting such an order against your abuser?

It’s easy to see why the victims of domestic violence may see getting protective orders as a waste of time. But although there are limits to the protections such orders offer. They’re still valuable tools that can help keep victims safe.

Protective orders—also called orders of protection or restraining orders, depending on the jurisdiction. They are intended to restrain the person to which they’re issued from harassing, attacking, stalking, threatening, contacting or coming near the target of the abuse as well as her home, workplace, school, etc. These orders can also extend such protections to children and even pets in some cases and states.