Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.

Originally Published: Domestic Violence: The Counselor, July/Aug. 2005; pp. 44+.

"Each year between 1 and 4 million women in the United States are victims of domestic violence, and 31 percent of women slain in this country are murdered by husbands, boyfriends, or exes--the majority killed after attempting to leave an abusive relationship. The fact that such statistics are routinely compiled and readily available is a testament to the mainstreaming of an issue that was barely acknowledged in the popular consciousness three decades ago. Since the 1970s, when domestic violence activism first emerged as an outgrowth of the women's movement, proponents have won dramatic changes in policy, leaps in social awareness, and major infusions of cash from state and federal government. But sustained institutional change requires vigilance...What began as a scrappy, grassroots effort has become a bureaucratized entity allied so closely with the criminal justice system that it has sacrificed much of its ability to effectively critique that system and push for reform." (MOTHER JONES) This article relates the experiences of Patricia Prickett, an advocate for more effective domestic violence laws and a former adviser to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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