LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- In the late 1970’s, women’s advocates started the battered women shelter movement. It spread across the nation and evolved into family justice centers and batterers intervention ...

Over the past year, Northwest Montana has begun making inroads to address domestic violence through a legislative proposal aimed at protecting victims and the addition of three victim advocates in ...

National figures comparing batterer-intervention programs are hard to come by. A 2003 U.S. Justice Department report by Shelly Jackson reviewed 35 such studies–but not Gilligan’s–and found them hard ...

The New York City Council’s Committee on Women and Gender Equity and Committee on the Justice System held a joint hearing on Wednesday to examine the effectiveness of the city’s programs meant to ...

“I am afraid for my life, but I am having to pretend everything is okay to everyone around.” This was part of a message sent to the Alcoa anonymous tip line from a woman claiming she was being ...

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The state of Florida requires people convicted of domestic violence to participate in batterers’ intervention programs. The programs have been in place for 30 years, but lawmakers are now looking into ...

Franklin County Municipal Court wants to interrupt the cycle of domestic violence by educating convicted abusers who are on probation. The new Batterers Intervention Program is accepting referrals now ...

Batterers are much less likely to return to abusing their partners if they complete an intervention program required by the courts, according to the California State Auditor, but many of them do not ...

BRENTWOOD — Daniel Hammond might have had two years behind bars for threatening to shoot his ex-girlfriend and her daughter had a batterer's intervention program been offered in the county jail.