Domestic Violence Law

This Hornbook is a comprehensive, well-researched examination of all aspects of state and federal law on domestic violence. Topical coverage includes characteristics of domestic violence; extent of the problem; lethality assessment; influential factors (age, sex, race, ethnicity, LGBT intimate partner violence, disability, social class, immigration status); special contexts (military, police, professional athletics); specific types of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse (strangulation, stalking, sexual assault, separation abuse, teen dating violence, elder abuse, financial abuse, pet abuse, murder suicide, reproductive control, domestic violence by proxy, instrumental use of children; litigation abuse); cutting-edge laws on revenge porn and coercive control; law enforcement response (mandatory arrest, dual arrest, primary aggressor laws, no drop policies); Violence Against Women Act, criminal law defenses (self-defense, duress, cultural defense, provocation); evidentiary issues (Battered Woman Syndrome, marital rape, prior act testimony, out-of-court statements, exceptions to the hearsay rule, forfeiture by wrongdoing, batterers’ profile evidence, spousal testimonial privilege, victim recantation); protection orders; tort remedies; firearm regulations; tribal law issues; family law issues (role of domestic violence in divorce, property division, spousal support and parenting); child welfare overlap with domestic violence; child abduction; international law issues (international human rights, asylum, Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction, fiancée visas, U-visas, International Marriage Broker Regulation Act); immigration law-related issues; and discrimination against victims in housing and employment.