Scary-looking Michael Carotenuto, 39, accused of robbing elderly women with a claw hammer on Christmas day
Speaking of violence... does data on domestic violence underrepresent the numbers of male victims?
Book note: added a couple of titles to the librury-- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
and The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
-- both good reads.News of the weird: Pat "Haitians swore a pact with the devil" Robertson spoke out for the decriminalization of marijuana
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Domestic Violence? Does on have to live in the same domicile and be violently abused for something to qualify as domestic violence? Such strange confining terminology. How about adopting the new and politically correct, and much more encompassing terminology a little late in 2010? IPV.....Intimate Partner Violence!
Now that we have that out of the way let's move on into a deeper gender-related discussion of IPV. Yes, some women beat men and some men beat women. However, the way each group physically abuses each other is different. Men will overpower women, breaking bones, using blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. Women, often lacking upper body strength, might punch, kick and use less force in their physical abuse, causing less injury. Consequently, there is a difference in what will turn up in an x-ray. A male abuse victim will never make it to the hospital or morgue. And, of course, big strong men are much less likely to complain to a big strong male police officer that their 110 pound booty call just punched them in the gut at 3AM after several mai tais. Giving money to the House of Ruth sounds noble and honorable, making a charitable contribution to a center that helps abused men, not so much. Police officers at 3AM are trained to make problems go away fast, not hear a bunch of stories from 2 opposing sides and try to make a decision on who punched who first. It's easier to take a man to the lock-up and leaving the woman in the 3 bedroom split-level with the kids. Things probably need to change, I guess that is what futures are for.
On Woodland, weren't Mr. Anderson and Mr. Omar caught up in some sort of legal mess after they beat Mr. Woodland to a pulp after Mr. Woodland shot somebody? Are they still going to be hung out to dry over this? As I recall I was on Anderson and Omar's side over that Sheraton mess. From reading the Rodericks article, it turns out Mr. Woodland was charged in November will drug dealing. I guess he wasn't good at avoiding trouble.
"domestic" = people who live in the same house.
Wives/girlfriends certainly do kill husbands/boyfriends/girlfriends. It might be less common (abusive women more often take their rage out on the children), but it certainly does happen, see Jeremiah Pinder
Didn't that lady in Baltimore County hire a hitman to kill her husband?
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