Understanding Domestic Violence: A Handbook for Victims and Professionals

Provides help to better understand how domestic violence affects adult and child victims. Offers tools to help prevent further injury or death. Explains how the civil and criminal justice system can work for the protection of the victims.

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Table of Contents (Summary):

A Special Message

What Victims (and Those Who Help Them) Need to Know about Domestic Violence

I. Safety Planning

II. Understanding Domestic Violence

III. Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

IV. Asking for Help

V. Resources for Victims of Domestic Violence

This publication is important for victims of domestic violence and their families and loved ones so that the victims, and any children they may have, can receive help, shelter, proper protection, and legal recourse.