By focusing on what survivors should or shouldn’t do, we’re blaming them for their own abuse and placing the onus for justice on them. There’s a better way. By Rachel Teicher, director of Intimate Partner Violence Intervention programs at the National Network for Safe Communities
The IPVI intervenes early on with intimate partner violence offenders known to the criminal justice system. Developed by the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) at John Jay College. The initiative offers supportive services to offenders and, when necessary, addresses the most dangerous individuals through enforcement actions.
“It’s an exceptionally challenging time right now — it’s unlike anything that most people have experienced, especially on this broad and deep a scale,” Rachel Teicher, a domestic violence expert, told Oxygen.com. “Anything that was underlying to begin with — abuse, violence, tension, coercion — is only going to be amplified because there’s very little stability or normalcy,
Reports of domestic abuse in three cities have dropped. But police and experts say that may be a problem… That’s why Rachel Teicher, director of the intimate partner violence Intervention program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s National Network for Safe Communities, said essential businesses such as pharmacies and grocery stores should become a
Last November, I wrote about the slow-motion murder of 40-year-old Tabitha Birdsong, who according to her family, her friends and her own harrowing hand-written journals…
Instead of incentivizing police to go after the money and property of people they merely suspect of having drugs, they should be incentivized to…
Instead of incentivizing police to go after the money and property of people they merely suspect of having drugs, they should be incentivized to pursue dangerous abusers. Over 70% of sheriff's offices serving 25,000 or more residents participated in a drug task force in 2007, the most recent year for which data was available. Imagine if
Central Florida should be looking to High Point, N.C., a town of just more than 100,000 people outside Greensboro, where police have come down hard on perpetrators of domestic violence and sharply reduced the number of related killings. In the five years before starting the crackdown strategy, High Point saw 17 domestic violence-related murders. In
Central Florida should be looking to High Point, N.C., a town of just more than 100,000 people outside Greensboro, where police have come down…
For years, she slept with a gun under her pillow, living in fear of a boyfriend who beat her, controlled her life and threatened to kill her and her children. Domenica, who came to this country illegally from Mexico in 1995 and became part of the booming immigrant community in Houston, said her partner was