Gruelle Kit - Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Procedure, Response and Policy

Intimate Partner Violence

Effective Procedure, Response and Policy

Intimate Partner Violence

Effective Procedure, Response and Policy

Elicka Peterson Sparks

Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina, USA

Kit Gruelle

Utah Domestic Violence Coalition

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Names: Peterson-Sparks, Elicka, 1967- author. | Gruelle, Kit, author.

Title: Intimate partner violence : effective procedure, response and policy / Elicka Peterson Sparks and Kit Gruelle.

Description: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016009799 | ISBN 9781498773591 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Marital violence. | Dating violence. | Family violence. | Family violence--Prevention. | Family violence--Law and legislation.

Classification: LCC HV6626 .P467 2016 | DDC 362.82/92--dc23

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For Gloria Steinem, all the survivors of intimate partner violence and the tireless people who do the hard, necessary work to help them

Contents

ElickaMany people helped, supported and encouraged me in the completion of the research for this book, and I would especially like to thank Maggie, Jessica and Megan Sparks, my parents, Cathy Marcum, Jennifer Kopolow, all the people who do such amazing work in this area, Luna, Spice, Sugar and my colleagues in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. I have the best friends and colleagues in the world. Thank you all so much. Finally, thanks to Gloria Steinem for introducing me to Kit. You were rightwe definitely needed to know one another. I owe you one.

KitI would like to thank all the survivors of domestic and sexual violence I have had the privilege to work with and learn from for the last 30years. Your wisdom, strength and determination never cease to inspire and humble me. I would also like to thank those who have dedicated their lives to doing what they can to address and end this still-misunderstood epidemic. Specifically, I want to thank Jo Sanders, Jane Allen Wilson, Jean Kilpatrick, Glen Hackney and Andrea Batshe, who are so loving to women and children. Janice Reinerth, Amy Page, Beth Davison, Ed Rosenberg and Joyce Powers helped get this old undergraduate through school. And I would also like to thank the late Ellen Pence, our stand-up comedienne and Yoda, all rolled into one, for her immeasurable brilliance. And of course, many thanks to Gloria Steinem for everything, including introducing me to Elicka. We hope that this book helps to illuminate some of the issues that victims and survivors of intimate partner violence are still forced to navigate every day. I would like to dedicate my part of this book to my three kids, Matt, Jason and Noelle. I am so proud to be your mom! I love the three of you so much!

Elicka Peterson Sparks, PhD, is an associate professor of criminal justice and criminology in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Dr. Peterson Sparks research focuses on victimology, the criminogenic impact of religion, domestic violence and homicide. She has published scholarly articles on homicide, domestic violence, sex offending, jury decision making, juvenile justice, actuarial justice, mentoring, police response to intimate partner violence and criminological theory, and her research has appeared in criminological journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Homicide Studies, Punishment & Society, The Criminal Justice Law Review and The Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Dr. Peterson Sparks is the author of the book, The Devil You Know: The Surprising Link between Conservative Christianity and Crime. She has also consulted for numerous media outlets, and on several documentaries, including PBSs Blind Spot: Murder by Women and HBOs Private Violence.

Kit Gruelle is a survivor of domestic violence and has worked as an advocate for battered women and their children for nearly 30 years. She started her work as a crisis-line volunteer in Durham, North Carolina in the mid-1980s at the OrangeDurham Coalition for Battered Women. In 1995, she created and coordinated the Bridges Program, a coordinated community response (CCR) program, at the Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services in Chatham County, North Carolina. She has also been a subject matter expert (SME) and an instructor for California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) since 1997. In 2012, she completed her sociology degree (with a concentration in violence against women) at Appalachian State University. In 2001, she created the documentary film project Private Violence: The Movement against Battering in America. The feature-length, Emmy-nominated film,