Perceptive differences on domestic violence against women

Abstract

This article analyzes the perceptive differences in domestic violence against women. These perceptive differences refer to the moral emotions that both specialists and nonspecialists believe that social actors should experience when they commit an abuse qualified as an act of domestic violence against women. The purpose of this research was on one side to identify the potential perceptive differences of these moral emotions, materialized as feelings of embarrassment, shame, and guilt, and on the other side to identify any perceptive differences as far as women’s myths go.