Abuse

United States is one of the largest countries in the world. California is one of the metropolitan areas in the United States that has some domestic issues. California's domestic violence on sexual or child abuse has risen to a part where people are concerned. Many of the abuses are mainly on women. These violent abuses all start from a relationship with a boyfriend, spouse, or divorced women who get violently abused. Women aren't the only ones who are being abused. Children also are being abused in the state of California. Corona, California seems like a nice place to live in, but child abuse has grown in that peaceful city. Corona is ranked fourth in the most child abuse in the United States. Strangers, elders, or other child molesters abuse children today in the United States. The city of Corona is trying to decrease the child molestations so that children could live a better life. It can also relieve the stress of the parents concern over the safety of their children. The California law is really strict on the rules of domestic violence offenders and will see to it that it will stop no matter the cost.

Combating domestic violence on abuse in California has always been a top priority since the late 1970s. Domestic violence has intensified since the O.J. Simpson trial. Simpson was declared not guilty of murdering two people and one of them was his former wife. The police then learned that Nicole Brown Simpson asked the police many times for protection from her husband. Brown was pleaded not guilty for any abusive action on her in 1989. The O.J. Simpson trial caused public awareness to rise in 1984. Also, police have seen an increase in arrests for violent abuses in California between 1900 through 2000. Since this occurring violence has created problems for the metropolitan area, the state has reinforced their laws. For example, they require people who have health care to train in the awareness of violent abuse, so the citizens can inform the police of California if anybody was being abused. They have also informed hospitals to adopt written policies on the treatment of victims and health practitioners to report any domestic violence to the law enforcers. Violent abuses also increased the state funding on shelters for the safety of the victims. The increase on shelters started in 1994 when the legislature and Governor Wilson provided 11.5 million dollars to the Department of Health Services. This amount of funding has steadily increased during the years and will continue to grow until the domestic violence has stopped. This increase also has made many shelters for the victim's safety. However, the problems with shelters are that they do not help the victim assist in legal services, housing, job placement, and prevention programs. This wouldn't even help the victim on any long-term relief in crises if the battered person were in trouble in those situations.

Homicide is another main problem for the state of California. Many suicides by the victim being abused by his or her partner have occurred. The causes of the suicides are possibly from the experiences that the victims had to endure during the sexual assault or the disease they got from the abuse. Another homicide is that the victims partner committing murder on the battered person. The rise in homicides started in the year 1993. All the deaths were mainly of women. Luckily, the increase of deaths has stopped because of the strict laws the government passed on. Still the death rates of the victims are still high because the battered persons partner wants revenge on the charges the battered person charged him. California is trying to solve this problem so the victim can live a better peaceful life in the future.

One other main problem is that victims who make police calls to stop the abuser are successful, but the abuser doesn't get arrested in some cases. Why does this occur? The reason is because most cases were sexual and child abuse but others were only verbal arguments. If the case were actually an