Distinguish between victim-blaming, victim-defending, and system-blaming arguments concerning who or what is at fault. Identify maximalist and minimalist perspectives about the seriousness of the problem of intimate partner violence.

Victimology:

To distinguish between all the different forms of domestic violence and intimate partner violence.
To appreciate how wife beating was rediscovered and how attitudes and responses toward wife beating have changed over the centuries.
To distinguish between victim-blaming, victim-defending, and system-blaming arguments concerning who or what is at fault.
To identify maximalist and minimalist perspectives about the seriousness of the problem of intimate partner violence.
To be able to offer a number of convincing answers to the question of why a battered woman stays in an abusive relationship.
To become familiar with the many changes that have taken place in the way that the criminal justice system handles violence between intimate partners as well as the shortcomings that persist.
To become aware of the problem of violence within couples who are dating.
To become alert to the many aspects of elder abuse.
To become familiar with the different strategies underlying prevention efforts to reduce family violence.