Domestic Violence Resources
You can find more about Domestic Violence by visiting the following links and/or by reading some of the following research done over the years.
Links
Advocacy Wheel
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
American Institute on Domestic Violence,
Domestic Violence Statistics
Barbara J. Hart,
Children of Domestic Violence: Risks and Remedies
Children Coping with Family Violence Wheel
Child Protective Services (NYS)
City of Poughkeepsie
Community Foundation of Dutchess County
Criminal Courts
Danger Assessment Tools - English Language |
Spanish Language
Department of Social Services (NYS)
Domestic Violence Information for Lesbian, Transgender and Bisexual Women
Dutchess County Department of Planning and Development
Dutchess County District Attorney's Office
Dutchess County Youth Bureau
Joseph S. Volpe, Ph.D.,
Effects of Domestic Violence on Children and Adolescents
Family Partnership Center, Inc.
Family Services, Inc.
Family Services of Dutchess County
Comprehensive Crime Victims Assistance Program
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Legal Momentum (formerly known as the NOW Legal Defense
and Education Fund)
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women Statistics Packet
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline
New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Nonviolence and Equity Wheel
Personalized Safety Plan
Power and Control Wheel
Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Shelter Tour
Safety Planning (Women's Law Initiative)
Same Sex Domestic Violence (Community United Against Violence)
Silent Witness National Initiative Site
VAWNet: National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women
What to Do if You are a Victim
(Dutchess County, NY District Attorney’s Office)
Research
Census 2000 Special Reports: We the People - Women and Men in the United States, Renee E. Spraggins, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC: January 2005
Portland Press Herald [Maine]: Is anger management a remedy for batterers? A federal ban on using domestic violence grants to fund the programs raises some questions
National Institute of Justice: When violence hits home: How economics and neighborhood play a role.
The New York Times: Women likelier to be slain by a partner than a stranger.
The New York Times: Foreign born women more likely to be slain by partners.
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information: Child Witnesses to Domestic Violence: How states have made provision in their statutes for recognizing and protecting children who are the collateral victims of domestic violence
Johns Hopkins University: Unemployment, access to guns among factors that turn domestic violence deadly.
Harvard School of Public Health: 70% of All Women Killed in Industrialized Nations are American.
Violence Policy Center: When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1998 Homicide Data.
Barbara J. Hart (Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse): Children of Domestic Violence: Risks and Remedies.
Joseph S. Volpe, Ph.D.: Effects of Domestic Violence on Children and Adolescents.