[Paula Petrotta]: Domestic violence costs American companies millions of dollars each year in lost productivity and health care costs. If you look at the rate of homeless women on the street in this city alone, SO percent of them are there because they had to flee a domestic violence situation. We know that domestic violence doesn't stay at home when the victim goes to work. It typically impacts the workplace with threatening calls and unwanted visits from the abuser and yes, there have been instances where the abuser has showed up at the workplace and has either seriously injured or killed the victim or her co-workers. In these cases where the victim feels the abuser is a serious threat to her safety in the workplace, employers and security staff should be made aware so they put in pla...
The recent killing of Aasiya Zubair Hassan has generated considerable attention on the possible role that religion and culture played in her death. While religion and culture are important in explaining violence against women, we must be careful not to make these issues scapegoats or an excuse to diminish responsibility when an individual decides to take the life of another. Doing so allows us to distance ourselves from the reality that domestic violence and domestic violence homicides -- if that, in fact, turns out to be what this case involves -- occur daily in American society and in American households. In 2005 the World Health Organization study on domestic violence revealed that intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence in women's lives -- much more so than ass...
Introduction. II. Background. A. The History of Domestic Violence in the United States. B. Child Welfare and the Constitutional Right to Custody. C. How the Legal System Currently Addresses the Issues of Criminal Liability of Mothers and Removal of Children from the Home in Domestic Violence Situations. III. Discussion & Analysis. A. The Facts. B. The Suit. C. The District Court's Ruling. 1. The Best Practices. 2. Problems with the Current Policies and Practices of ACS. 3. Problems Resulting from Court Procedure. D. The Appellate Court's Ruling. E. New York Court of Appeals'Answers. F. Analyzing the Issues. 1. Issues Concerning the Protection of Children. 2. Issues Concerning the Rights of Battered Mothers. IV. Significance. A. Conceptual Response to Criminalization. B. Conceptual Re...
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the CHOICES Domestic Violence Program invites you to test your knowledge as we offer the facts about domestic violence. Myth: Battered women are crazy for staying!
The trial court erred in imposing sentence on appellants convictions for felonious assault and domestic violence, since on the facts of this case, they were allied offenses subject to merger. The trial court also erred in stating appellant entered a guilty plea to the felonious assault count that the state dismissed, rather than the one retained by the plea agreement.
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While the recession hasn't increased instances of domestic violence, it certainly hasn't helped. A recent study shows that domestic violence increased statewide from 2009 to 2010. On Sept. 15, 2010, alone, 5,261 Californians sought help from domestic violence, up from 3,674 on the same day the year before. A report from the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) showed a correlation between economic downturn and domestic violence occurrences.
Funding for domestic violence shelters is among the many cuts in recently revised state budget proposal, and local shelters say they will have to cut services if the state doesn't chip in. Transportation for battered women looking for apartments, support for women seeking restraining orders and counseling for domestic violence victims could all be cut as shelters try to maintain their most basic services.
FUTURE EVENTS * Domestic Violence Counseling Center will sponsor a forum titled "Domestic Violence in the African-American Community" at 6 p.m. Friday at the Second Avenue Center, 1411 Second Ave. The forum is an opportunity to learn the facts about domestic violence and erase the myths. Participants can submit questions confidentially. The public is welcome. Refreshments will be available. For information, call 342 -7752.
Since we've been apart, things have been amazing," she said. "I'm in my senior year at Columbia College. I spoke at the recent domestic violence march and my older son gave a speech about the problem as well. "We just unveiled a display in the lobby of the Thompson Center Monday called 'silent witnesses'," said [Jennifer Welch]. "And we produced a quiz to enhance public awareness about some of the disturbing facts about domestic violence." "It's very moving," Welch said. "We also have a booklet there full of art and poetry created by young people who've either witnessed domestic violence or who are also its victims. We estimate there are almost four million children affected by this every year in the United States."
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