Domestic violence has many faces. While many think of the stereotypical "battered wife," the general term refers to many types of abuse, such as child abuse, family violence, intimate partner abuse, ...

There is power in a definition. A definition is a shared understanding among people, a social knowledge. Yet in April of last year, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women ...

The Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women quietly but significantly redefined what it considers “domestic violence” and “sexual assault,” Natalie Nanasi wrote in Slate. Nanasi, ...

The official definition of domestic violence is being widened by the government, to include psychological abuse for the first time. The law will now also recognise that 16 and 17-year-olds can be ...

Los Angeles City Council members opposed changes made to the definition of domestic violence on the United States Department of Justice website. The DOJ Office on Violence Against Women changed the ...

Protecting victims of abuse is going to take more than a meatier definition of family violence, according to the executive director of Iris Kirby House. Michelle Greene, head of the women's shelter, ...

Law enforcement, domestic violence organizations and gun control groups won an important victory in the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. The justices ruled unanimously that people convicted of minor ...

Despite alarming numbers, Czech legislation had no domestic violence definition, which brought significant uncertainty into police conduct or judicial decision-making, as highlighted by the EURACTIV ...

We heard from many that the recent mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado may be a return to a new, sad “normal” as more people are vaccinated against COVID-19. But while firearm-related events where ...