Husband as intimate partner’s physical violence against wife with special reference to the Mount Lavinia Police Division

The topic of the research is the husband as intimate partner’s physical violence against wife with special reference to Mount Lavinia Police Division. It is an identified criminal incident regarding domestic violence. It will be necessary to find solutions to this social problem. The research problem is how physical violence is happening against wife by their husband. The main objective of this research is to study and find solutions to the physical violence against wives and the specific objectives are to investigate the types of physical violence that are done by husbands against their wives, to examine the reasons behind the physical violence against wives, to study about the actions that are taken by the victim wives against their husbands and to suggest solutions against physical violence of wives. This study aimed to study the intimate partner’s physical violence against their wife with special reference to the Mount-Lavinia police division. Therefore, Mount Lavinia police division was examined as the study area to achieve research objectives. This study’s data was collected from January to September 2023. The 48-sample size was taken from the 158 police records by using a simple random sample technique. Primary data collection methods of questionnaires and interviews have been used for research. Police records, scholarly articles, and research articles were used as secondary data collection methods to collect data for the research. Both qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods were used. Furthermore, SPSS software was used for statistical analysis, and thematic analysis for the interview was used. Age does not matter for physical violence, every physically abused victim experiences physical violence at home, most of them are abused by beating and burning, women are less likely to talk to their husbands to reduce this situation and the person who has been physically abused once is more likely to be physically abused again can be shown as the findings of this research. Family counseling, rehabilitation, and providing more self-employment opportunities can be displayed as suggestions for reducing physical abuse against victim wives in society.