This coursebook explores the law of domestic violence in the United States through interdisciplinary articles, book excerpts, historical cases, studies, policy papers, and statutes. The book fosters critical thinking by presenting opposing viewpoints and critiques of existing law.

Topical coverage includes dynamics of abuse, demographic differences, torts, restraining orders, and children. Chapters on the criminal law cover partner rape, police responses, prosecution, and the prosecution of domestic violence victims. Other chapters include VAWA, firearms restrictions, military responses, confidentiality, safety, financial issues, immigration, asylum, and international human rights.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 03/27/2024

Nancy K. D. Lemon, University of CA-Berkeley School of Law

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The revised edition contains updated articles, cases, studies, and other materials on the following:

  • Statistics: CDC, Covid and DV, stalking and technology, DV homicides, teen dating violence
  • Impact of abortion bans
  • Animal abuse
  • Litigation abuse and vexatious litigants
  • Black women, Latinas, Native Women and tribal sovereignty
  • Mutual restraining orders
  • Transgender survivors
  • Tort suits
  • Effectiveness of restraining orders
  • Child custody cases, protective mothers, endangered children, juvenile dependency court
  • International child abduction
  • Coercive control and sexual coercion
  • Lethality assessment, dominant aggressor policies, role of law enforcement, Family Justice Centers
  • Strangulation, hate crimes, prosecuting perpetrators
  • Monitoring abusers for compliance
  • DV survivors as criminal defendants and post conviction issues
  • VAWA 2022, US National Plan to end gender based violence
  • Firearms
  • Military adjudications of DV
  • Internet of Things
  • Coerced debt
  • Workplace injunctions, other employment protections
  • Eviction protections
  • Immigration law, VAWA self petitions
  • Asylum
  • International human rights

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