by women and children, and is perpetrated by men. Domestic abuse is often serious and sustained and can be life
threatening.” (Scottish Womens Aid, 2008).
"Terrorism is violence used in order to create fear; but it is aimed at creating fear in order that the fear, in turn,
will...accomplish whatever it is that the terrorist really desires." (Fromkin, 1975, 692-3).
Domestic abuse, on the other hand, directly terrorises people who are abused and their children; it
is a way in which abusers exert psychological and emotional control, and it often leads to changes to
behavior among those who are abused. Most of all, domestic abuse, like global terrorism, can be
seen as part of a desire to gain or enforce particular forms of political control. Its effects reinforce the
social and political structures that produce it. In the case of domestic abuse, the most important of
these is gender inequality, and this report also discusses inequalities of social class, sexual orientation,
ethnicity, migrant status, and disability. So domestic abuse, and the corrosive effects of the fears of
those who suffer it, are not simply an issue of individual or family conflict – they relate to, and is
sustained by, social inequalities at the level of society.
Domestic abuse, then, can be considered a more effective form of terrorism – it routinely creates
long-lasting fear and trauma, and affects vastly greater numbers of people than global terrorism. As
the accounts of those interviewed for this research show, the frequency, prolonged nature and setting
in which domestic abuse takes place all help to explain and justify these higher levels of fear and
trauma. Naming domestic abuse ‘terrorism’ is not to suggest that the two forms of violence are the same,
they have a shared basis as attempts to exert fear and control.
www.dur.ac.uk/resources/beacon/EverydayTerrorism.pdf
Every day abuse victims are living in fear because their partners have place fear within their hearts so they can have control over their victims. Once they place fear within their victims they can do pretty much anything to their victims because they know or hope that their partners won't report them to the police or refused to tell someone because they are scared of their partners. They also manipulate their victims to thinking that its their fault so they won't leave, in other words they want their victims to feel sorry for something they didn't do and want complete control of them. With the victims living in fear it makes it harder for them to leave the relationship. Some are locked up in their homes while their partners go out and enjoy their life.
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