About Domestic Violence
Information
about Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence: Finding Safety
and Support
A comprehensive guide for both survivors and helpers with up-to-date
information about the problem of adult domestic violence, safety
planning, and getting help from domestic violence services, the police,
and the courts.
- A Power and Control (Wheel)
A visual aid describing the different tactics of coercion and violence
that batterers use to control their partners. Created by the Domestic
Abuse Intervention Project, Duluth, MN.
The Power and Control Wheel was developed by battered women in Duluth,
Minnesota, who had been abused by their male partners and were attending
women’s educational groups sponsored by the women’s shelter.
This wheel is meant specifically to illustrate men’s abusive
behaviors toward women.
- Domestic Abuse - Coercive Controlling Violence
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York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.
