Functionalist Theory
Many people who are domestic violence perpetrators use domestic violence to gain control over their victim. They do this to create a sense of stability in their life. They have someone there to love them, and often violence erupts when the perpetrator feels as thought their victim is detaching from them, in the case of employment, emotional detachment, divorce, or even pregnancy. Pregnancy could be seen as the victim leaving the victim because the abuser feels as though the victim will replace the love she has for him with the love she has for the child. That is why one of the most dangerous times for the victim is when they are leaving the abuser.
Conflict theory
Domestic violence creates inequality in many ways, it puts the victim lower than the abuser. It also put the victim lower than the rest of society because, they chose to stay in the relationship. They could have left and not been a victim. Historically speaking, women have always been lower than men in society, even today their is inequality toward women, they do not make as much as men in the same field. In a world where laws are mainly created by men, the women were often subjected to abuse simply because many men felt as though the husband was doing what he was supposed to do. He was taking care of the family.
Symbolic Interaction Theory
Domestic violence affects interaction because victims often have a hard time interacting with their peers. They have been isolated and are often not able to contribute to society because of mental illness brought on by abuse or lack of resources. Victims of abuse generally do not contribute to the economy and thus domestic violence creates a strain on society as a whole.