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Non-Traditional Strategies for Domestic Violence

Episodes of domestic violence occur daily in households throughout our nation. The legal definition of domestic violence is an act by a person who inflicts corporal injury on his or her spouse, former spouse, or a current or former partner with whom the offender is in an intimate relationship. Interestingly, advocates of domestic violence prevention believe this definition is not broad enough.

They extend the definition to include sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. Thus, they consider unwanted sex, mental abuse caused by derogatory statements, and the withholding of money to be domestic violence. The fact that there is disagreement over the definition of domestic violence is often ...

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