Domestic Violence
Definition and Summary
NOTE FROM AUTHOR
Anyone can be the target of domestic violence, regardless of age, race, economic status, gender, or sexual preference. Domestic violence is pattern of coercive control that includes emotional, financial, and physical abuse, and a number of other behaviors intended to control the other person. Without physical violence, many people don’t realize they are in an abusive relationship. Many have questions such as why do victims stay, and can abusers change. The resources provided here offer further descriptions of domestic violence as well as options, support, and insight about this often hidden epidemic. Nobody deserves to be abused.
DEFINITION
“Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another.” Excerpt from The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, see full definition here.
Resources
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Internet and Computer Safety (NNEDV)
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
Family Violence Prevention & Services Resource Centers *A comprehensive list of resources.
US and Territorial Coalitions (NNEDV)
National Network to End Domestic Violence
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Feminist Majority Foundation *Comprehensive list of resources
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health *Comprehensive list of resources
Battered Women’s Justice Project: Training, policy and practice, and more resources.
Joyful Heart Foundation: Domestic Violence
Information about VAWA from NNEDV
The National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence
GLBTQ Domestic Violence Project
National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
International Association of Chiefs of Police: Domestic Violence by Police officers Model Policy
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
The Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
Ignite: “IGNITE’s main goal is to support the needs of Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual violence”
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Deaf Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
The National Domestic Violence Hotline: Deaf Services
National Center for Victims of Crime: Responding to Crime Victims with Disabilities
TEEN DATING VIOLENCE
Child Welfare Information Gateway
VICTIM SERVICES
National Organization for Victim Assistance
Department of Justice Victim Witness Program
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers: Victim Witness Program
National Center for Victims of Crime
CHILD CUSTODY
Domestic Shelters: 5 Myths about Child Custody and Domestic Violence
NOMAS: Shared Custody in the Context of Domestic Violence
OTHER
Animal Cruelty and Human Violence HSUS
The National Domestic Violence Hotline: Map of shelters that allow pets – Safe Havens Mapping Project
Children and Domestic Violence
Childhood Domestic Violence Association
The National Domestic Violence Hotline: Firearms and Domestic Violence
Everytown: Guns and Violence Against Women
National Institute of Justice: Batterer Intervention Programs
Futures Without Violence: Batterer Intervention Programs
Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan
Intervention Programs for Abusive Behavior, The National Domestic Violence Hotline
Couples Counseling and Domestic Violence, The National Domestic Violence Hotline