New York’s Community District 12, which covers the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, has by far the city’s lowest reported rate of domestic violence: 459 incidents per 100,000 residents in the most recent year the police department has published data.
But that doesn’t mean the largely Haredi community does not have a domestic violence problem. In fact, an analysis of crime data and court records, coupled with interviews of abuse victims, social workers, police officers and experts, show that the low rate instead reflects a code of silence in the insular religious enclave — and, until recently, a longstanding — if unwritten — agreement between the authorities and Orthodox leaders to let the community handle the problem internally.
“In Borough Park they like things taken care of in-house,” said Yael Machtinger, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who studies domestic violence in religious communities. “It’s definitely part of the culture that they don’t really want to be airing out their dirty laundry.”
Yael Machtinger is a rabid feminist whose positions are in total conflict with Halocho. I am shocked that you have quoted her. According to her, "get refusal" whatever that means, is DV. Read her dissertation and decide yourself if a. this is not feminist propaganda which is anti-halocho. b Is this rant she produces considered to be research worthy of a PhD?Compare this thesis to what it takes to get a PhD i math, physicist or engineering. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/34525/Machtinger_Yael_CB_2017_PhD.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
ReplyDeleteYiddishkeit has become a joke with frumas in goyshe court and everything goes because we have to placate the rabid feminine part of society.
Unfortunately I do not have the time to write a rebuttal to her thesis. York University should lose its license to award degrees!
The issue is not who is the author of article but whether what she says is accurate! I was told by a Brooklyn policeman that the facts are correct
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