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    Stop Domestic Violence: An Action Plan for Saving Lives
    Stop Domestic Violence: An Action Plan for Saving Lives
    Stop Domestic Violence: An Action Plan for Saving Lives
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    Stop Domestic Violence: An Action Plan for Saving Lives

    By Louis Brown, Merritt McKeon and François Duau

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    Thanks to the Simpson case, domestic violence is no longer a dirty little secret. It remains, however, a devastating problem, and even more, a deadly killer. What is the answer? In 1994, Lou Brown, father of Nicole Brown Simpson, gave us one solution by establishing a foundation in his daughter's name that provides urgently needed funding to battered women's shelters across the country. Now he goes a step further, and with the help of a like-minded pastor and a legal activist who has been battered, offers hope and practical strategies for combating domestic violence. In a book whose first half is geared to support network people like himself--parents, families, friends, both personal and professional, and acquaintances who can and should make a difference--and whose second half is directed at the victims of abuse, here is an action plan for battered women and those around them.

    Stop Domestic Violence offers a checklist for the victim of domestic violence, from obtaining restraining orders to getting the support network on her side. Here are steps on how to combat battering within families, within communities, within homes and at the legislative level.

    For Concerned Friends and Family:
    - What makes these men do it, and is there a cure for them?
    - Why do women stay?
    - What can I do to help a battered woman?

    And for the Victim--How do I:
    - Get stronger on the inside?
    - Deal with the legal system?
    - Stay sane in a shelter?
    - Stay save and begin recovery?

    This is a how-to book--practical, easy to use--and it just might save a life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 11, 2014
    ISBN9781466885219
    Stop Domestic Violence: An Action Plan for Saving Lives
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    Louis Brown

    Louis Brown is the founder and president of the Nicole Brown Simpson Charitable Foundation. His daughter, Nicole Brown System was a domestic violence victim. He lives in Dana Point, California.

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      WOW! The strength and courage you displayed in your quest for freedom from your abuser is absolutely amazing. The way you took on the justice system yourself (and won!) is unheard of! You are truly a survivor, and your story is sure to provide inspiration for abuse victims everywhere. It certainly did for me, and I owe you my life and sanity.
      Thank you for your willingness to share your story. It has touched my life deeply and helped to provide me with the strength and encouragement I needed to heal my deep scars left by my abuser. As a victim of domestic violence myself, I could never thank you enough! domesticviolencedatabase.net
      Kara M.

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    Stop Domestic Violence - Louis Brown

    Part 1

    Understanding Domestic Violence

    Chapter 1

    What Is Domestic Violence?

    There is a secret war in America, and in it millions of our citizens are held hostage, beaten, threatened, and killed. A recently released U.S. Department of Justice report, based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), confirms the national problem of violence against women:

    • In 1992 and 1993, almost 5 million violent crimes were committed annually against women age twelve or older.

    • Nearly 75 percent of all lone-offender violence against women was perpetrated by someone whom the victim knew.

    • In 29 percent of all violence against women by a lone offender, the perpetrator was an intimate—a husband, ex-husband, boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend.

    • Women annually reported 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults, almost 500,000 robberies, and about 3.8 million assaults.

    • An estimated 1,432 women were killed by domestic violence in 1992.

    While we are learning more about it every day, one thing is clear to everyone: when dealing with any aspect of domestic violence, the first thing we are all going to need is patience.

    Patience is something most people don’t have much of when they first try to help someone trapped in domestic violence. Consider these words from Robin Yeamans, an attorney who has twenty-five years of experience representing battered women in California:

    What I’ve learned over the years is to try to go at a pace that is acceptable to the battered woman, though it may seem incredibly slow to me. Some lawyers become outraged and rush to court, get restraining orders immediately, and then the woman backs off. I try to wait until the woman is firmed up enough that she’ll be able to hang in there through the legal process. It’s like a dance, and I can’t dance fast with her if she wants to dance slow.

    The other thing I’ve learned is not to be discouraged, or surprised, when these women reconcile [with their batterers]. I just assure them that if they want help in the future, I’ll be there.

    Patience is needed all around. Our society is just now awakening to the violence being done to women.

    To present to you the most accurate information and statistics regarding domestic violence in America, we chose the most widely respected source: the U.S. Department of Justice and its Bureau of Justice Statistics. Here is what the Bureau itself says of its statistics: Estimating rates of violence against women, particularly sexual assault and other incidents which are perpetrated by intimate offenders, continues to be a difficult task. Many factors inhibit women from reporting these victimizations both to police and to interviewers, including the private nature of the event, the perceived stigma associated with one’s victimization, and the belief that no purpose will be served in reporting it.

    One of the latest reports from the Department of Justice on violence against women, completed in August 1995, contained the following points:

    1. Women age twelve or older annually sustained almost 5 million violent victimizations in 1992 and 1993.

    2. About three-quarters of all lone-offender violence against women and 45 percent of violence involving multiple offenders were perpetrated by offenders whom the victim knew.

    3. In 29 percent of all violence against women by a lone offender, the perpetrator was an intimate (husband, ex-husband, boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend).

    4. Women were about six times more likely than men to experience violence committed by an intimate.

    5. Women annually reported to interviewers about 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults. Friends or acquaintances of the victims committed over half of these rapes or sexual assaults. Strangers were responsible for about 1 in 5.

    6. Among victims of violence committed by an intimate, the victimization rate of women separated from their husbands was about three times higher than that of divorced women and about twenty-five times higher than that of married women. Because the NCVS reflects a respondent’s marital status at the time of the interview, which is up to six months after the incident, it is possible that separation or divorce followed the violence.

    7. Female victims of violence by an intimate were more often injured by the violence than females victimized by a stranger.

    Violence against women perpetrated by people they knew intimately was consistent across racial and ethnic boundaries. No statistically significant difference existed between groups.

    In the first few weeks after murder charges were filed against O. J. Simpson, and the world learned about his abuse of Nicole, the media suddenly discovered domestic violence. Suddenly, also, all the battered women’s shelters, hotlines, and coalition groups found themselves overwhelmed with phone calls from victims desperately seeking help for the first time. All of us in America have been touched by Nicole’s

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