A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System

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| 245 A Call to Men, 196 Abrams, Kathryn, 12, 120, 123, 150 Acción USA, 188, 189 Accountability, 125, 137, 154, 155, 167, 169 Administration for Children’s Services (New York), 68 Agency, 113, 118, 120, 135, 152 as an alternative to autonomy, 120 Allen, Nicole, 151 Alternative dispute resolution, 113 American Psychiatric Association, 56 Committee on Women of, 56 American Psychological Association, Committee on Women, 56 Anti-essentialist feminism, 4–5, 134, 136 definition of, 136–137 Anti-essentialism response to domestic violence, 137–159 accountability and, 140 centrality of women in, 138–141 men and, 150–151 power and, 137, 139 safety and, 139–140 Arrest, 9, 84–85, 106, 109, 155 African American women and, 15 in an anti-essentialist system, 164–165 dual arrest, 51, 156 warrantless arrests in domestic violence cases, 109 of women, 51, 156 of women of color, 156 Ashar, Sameer, 197 Attorney General’s Task Force on Family Violence, 17, 109 Aubrey, Moss, 56 Autonomy, 107, 118–124, 129, 132, 134–135, 152, 165, 168, 172 coercive control and, 36–37, 46, 50, 121–122 definitions of, 119 domestic violence and, 121–124 empowerment and, 124, 125 feminist perspectives on, 119–120 patriarchy and, 119–120 Bachar, Karen, 169 Bailey, Allen M., 113 Bailey, Harry, 195 Baker, Jeffrey, 47–48 Baker, Phyllis, 96, 100 Balis, Donna, 35, 43 Bancroft, Lundy, 175 Bartlett, Katherine, 23 Battered Mothers Speak Out, 67 Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project, 94, 175, 184 The Battered Woman, 31–32, 57–58, 62 Battered woman syndrome, 7, 50, 54, 59–61, 141–142, 165 critiques of, 61 definitions of, 59–60 in the law, 60 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and, 59–60 victim stereotypes and, 76, 78, 141 The Battered Woman Syndrome, 58, 61 Battered women’s movement, 1–2, 6, 54, 79, 81, 82, 108, 130, 142, 154, 191 essentialism and, 7, 23–25, 142–143 importance of self-determination in, 139 Index 246 | Index Battered women’s movement (continued) professionalization of, 7, 25–28 views on state intervention, 15 women of color and, 23–25 Batterer intervention programs, 10, 148–150, 179 African American men and, 149 completion rates, 149 Duluth model, 148, 150 effectiveness of, 149–150 Bell, Meredith, 126–127, 128, 130, 136 Bolanos, Maria, 73 Borer, Tristan Anne, 181 Bowker, Lee, 97, 159 Breger, Melissa, 168 Brown, Steve, 54, 60 Brown, Wendy, 13 Brownmiller, Susan, 66 Buel, Sarah, 153 Burke, Alafair, 46–48, 50, 60 Busch, Ruth, 194 Bybee, Deborah I., 83 Byrne grants, 20 Campbell, Jacquelyn, 97–98 Carter, Jimmy, 19 Chicago Abused Women’s Coalition, 55 Christensen, Susan, 80–81 Christman, John, 119, 122 Civil justice system responses to domestic violence, 17 Civil protective orders, 10, 17, 152–153, 154, 156, 161–162 in an anti-essentialist system, 164, 166 coercive control and, 38 counsel and, 89 custody and visitation orders in, 91 economic abuse and, 43 emotional abuse and, 41–42 enforcement of, 91–93 fear as a grounds for, 76 jury trial in, 168 remedies available in, 88, 90–91 research on, 88–89, 91 restorative justice as an alternative to, 172–173 service of process of, 90 Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), 2 Coercive control, 34–38, 46, 174 autonomy and, 36–37, 121 civil protective orders and, 38, 47 crime of, 46–48, 168 definitions of, 35, 37, 48–49 degradation and, 35–36 intimidation and, 35 isolation and, 36 mandatory interventions and, 37 physical violence and, 36 surveillance and, 35 tort of, 176 Coker, Donna, 84, 96, 144, 172 material resources test proposal, 144 Colker, Ruth, 142 Collaborative law, 173 Community accountability, 194–197 lawyers and, 197 men and, 195–196 Connors, Bruce, 29–30, 42–43 Connors, Patricia, 29–30, 41, 42–43, 47, 50, 53, 136 Coordinated community response, 155 Coughlin, Anne, 98 Couples counseling, 191–192 research on, 192 Creative Interventions, 186, 195 Credit Builders Alliance, 189 Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 78 Criminal justice responses to domestic violence, 17–18 Criminal protective orders, 162 in an anti-essentialist system, 166 Curley, Cathryn, 26 Custody of children, 10, 17, 50, 52, 69, 81, 113, 114–115, 129, 154, 163 adjudication in an anti-essentialist system, 173–175 joint custody, 52, 129, 163, 174 Cycle of violence, 30, 31–33, 98, 142 acute battering incident, 31, 33 battered woman syndrome and, 31–32, 33, 59–61 critiques of, 32–33, 35 Index | 247 dominance feminism and...