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Vanecia Ellis
Ms. Morton
UWRT 1102-024
5 April 2016
Annotated Bibliography: Domestic Violence

Followill, Peter. Differentiating between domestic violence and domestic abuse NOLO.
Criminal Law Defense. N.D. Web. 30 Mar 2016
Followill describes the definitions of domestic violence and domestic violence while also
describing the different state codes, statues, and distinguishing which code belongs to which
category. He mostly focuses on setting apart what the judicial system consider what is domestic
violence and what is domestic abuse. He immediately jumps into describing state statues and
state codes for domestic violence and for domestic abuse. He was well organized with the layout
of the article with different subtitles and background information. Followill was clear with his
explanations and descriptions of the statuses for different statues across the country.
Followill does an excellent job explaining his knowledge of the law for both North
Carolina and also Wisconsin. He provided many examples. This source was helpful while I
looked at the judicial side of domestic violence and how to categorize it. This is also helpful to
help get the victim away from their abusers by putting them in the hands of the law. I couldnt
make any connections with my other sources because my other sources never talked about the
judicial side of domestic violence and how to classify it.

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Jetter, Alexis. Domestic Violence: A Hidden Cause of Chronic Illness MORE. N.D. Article. 31
Mar 2016.
Alexis Jetter discusses the many fatal and/ or non-curable conditions domestic violence is
responsible for. She also provides readers with a victims story. Throughout the article,
Jetter mentions many different types of health issues that have been directly linked to
effects of being abused. Jetter began with allowing a victims story to be heard and by
also using that victims story as evidence to support her claim.
Jetter seemed very knowledgeable about the different health issues linked to
domestic violence. She provides readers with some US statistics; for example: Annual
U.S. medical costs attributable to domestic violence, including years-old assaults that still
cause health problems, range from $25 billion to $59 billion, according to a 2008 study
funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Jetter, pg.1). As I
mentioned before Jetter uses several victims quotes throughout her article to support her
statements. She also raises more potential inquiry questions for my research by
questioning the doctors role in the emergency room/ hospital visits. Jetter reports Many
female DV survivors who show up in emergency rooms have suffered blunt trauma to the
head, face and neck, and an estimated 54 to 68 percent have been strangled; one third of
the women treated for DV in an emergency room have lost consciousness at least once as
a result of abuse. (Jetter pg.2) while later stating that many of these things get over
looked because the doctors dont ask, the doctors dont examine thoroughly, or some
women just simply dont bring up or lie about what happened.(Jetter pg.2).

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Although, this has some great information on the health risks of domestic violence it only
mentioned physical illness in comparison to the Joyful Heart Foundation. The Joyful
Heart Foundation discussed both physical and mental illnesses.

Joyful Heart Foundation. Effects of Domestic Violence. Joyful Heart Foundation. N.D. Web
Article. 31 Mar 2016.
The Joyful Heart Foundation focused on discussing the effects domestic violence
has on ones family both physically and emotionally. The writer of this article continues
on by stating how these mental effects con linger for long periods of time even after the
abuse has stopped. The Joyful Heart Foundation did an awesome job organizing and
allowing the information to flow into on paper. The subtopics were clear and
understandable. All the information was very comprehensive for almost all audiences.
The website even had 24 hour hotline telephone numbers in the margins for anyone to be
able to access the Joyful Heart Foundation. As I have pointed out a great number of
things, there are few things that the writer of this article could have done better. For
example, they could have put all the emotional/mental illnesses in a specific category and
then all the physical illnesses in a category. Overall, this source seems very reliable for
the information read.
The Joyful Heart Foundation and the Alexis Jetter article has many similarities.
They both speak confidently on the most common chronic physical illnesses that are
caused by domestic violence. The Joyful Heart Foundation gave much more examples

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and much more information on the different illnesses whereas the Jetter article was more
of a victims quotes and stories.
Seifert, Kathryn PhD. Domestic Violence affects all family members. Psychology Today. 30
Oct 2012. Web Article. 31 Mar 2016.
Kathryn Seifert discusses the effects of a violent environment on a child. She
explains that Children believe that what they see at home is normal. If the home is
safe and loving and has good boundaries, that becomes the norm. If violence is how
people in the home solve problems, that becomes the model for how things should be
done.(Seifert). She named a few famous examples of children of domestic violence such
as Bobbi Christinadaughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown and former
president Bill Clinton. She questioned how the violence Bobbi Christina has always
known and grown up on will affect the way she will handle future intimate relationships
and she then acknowledged how Bill Clinton lived with his grandparents for the first four
years then shifted into the life of a domestic violence victim. Seifert began to compare
Bill with his younger brother, Robert, and how age difference when the violence began to
occur could affect how the child later turns out in life.
I believe that Seifert couldve did a little more research and added more statistics
into the article to help support her case. She could have even got some answers to her
questions by asking an adult that has endure domestic violence as a child and how it has
affect their life. This source has connected with the Joyful Heart Foundation and the
Jetter article because she talks about how violence has affect the childs later life behavior
and personality.

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Women Health Organization. Understanding and addressing violence against women Women
Health Organization. N.D. PDF File. 31 Mar 2016.
The Women Health Organization focused mainly on the domestic violence against
women. They discussed the definition of violence against a woman, affect it has on a
womans health, how to address violence against women, etc. WHO got statistics from
around the world such as Researchers have documented violence against women in all
countries where it has been studied and among all social, economic, religious and cultural
groups. (WHO pg.2). WHO did a great job with explaining violence against women but
they could have also brought awareness to the men across the world that may be
receiving the same type of violence.
This source connects with the other three sources I have discussed in this paper.
WHO discusses how the violence is affecting the women and children in these domestic
disputes. WHO connected with them when describing what domestic violence was.

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