Domestic Violence Laws

Domestic Violence Injunctions Domestic violence is not what we thought we would be carrying as a societal problem into the new Millennium. In fact, it is an ancient problem that mere mention of it today as an ongoing crisis should really make our society embarrassed and oppressive. Only with the past decade is our society beginning to realize that we have overlooked the stringency of domestic violence. All along we have been viewing domestic violence …

…Communications, 1996. Domestic and Sexual Violence Data Collection, A Report to Congress under the Violence Against Women Act by the Justice Research and Statistics Association NCJ 161405 A Joint Publication of the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice Jeremy Travis, J.D. Director Bureau of Justice Statistics Jan Chaiken, Ph.D. Director Bernard Auchter Project Monitor National Institute of Justice