Domestic Violence Interventions

Handbook of Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies: Policies, Programs, and Legal Remedies Every year, approximately eight million women are abused, battered, stalked, or killed by their husbands, boyfriends, and other intimate partners. Featuring cutting-edge research and expert intervention strategies, this volume prepares professionals to swiftly and compassionately meet the multiple needs of women and children who have suffered from domestic violence. It focuses on the numerous advances in legal remedies, program developments, treatment protocols, and multidisciplinary perspectives, functioning as a comprehensive guide to the latest research, public policies, and legal and criminal justice responses, covering federal and state legislation as well as trends in police and court responses to domestic violence. This is the first book to include court-based technology developments and new research related to the duration and intensity of woman battering. Highlighting actual cases and promising programs, the handbook also addresses important social work issues, including risk assessment protocols, a new five level continuum of woman battering, intervention methods, and treatment models. The book also examines the myriad legal issues and health problems facing the most neglected and vulnerable battered women.