June 26, 2009
Vice President Biden Announces Appointment of White House Advisor
on Violence Against Women
Washington, DC – Vice President Biden, the author of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, announced today the appointment of Lynn Rosenthal as the new White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. Ms. Rosenthal is one of the nation’s foremost experts in [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Vice President Biden Announces Appointment of White House Advisor
June 26, 2009Why doesn’t he just leave?
June 10, 2009Another domestic homicide in the news this morning makes us wonder when the public will quit asking about the victim and begin asking about the perpetrator — “why doesn’t *he* just leave?”
Mo. man kills wife, then himself
ASSOCIATED PRESS
06/09/2009
SCOTT CITY, Mo. — Authorities in southeast Missouri say a man shot and killed his estranged wife, then [...]
New book – Dangerous Exits: Escaping abusive relationships in rural America
June 3, 2009Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America
By DeKeseredy, Walter S., Schwartz, Martin D.
ISBN:9780813545196
Publisher, Rutgers University Press, June 2009
Information from Rutgers University Press website:
Praise for Dangerous Exits
“This book deserves a special place among the panoply of new scholarship on rural crime. Innovative and multi-dimensional, Dangerous Exits sounds a powerful call for action and policy [...]
“Mary Kay’s Truth About Abuse” Survey
June 3, 2009Mary Kay Inc. recently announced results from the survey of domestic violence shelters across the country. The findings reveal an alarming trend: three out of four domestic violence shelters report an increase in women seeking assistance from abuse since September 2008, a major turning point in the U.S. economy. The survey data directly connects a [...]
