1. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES: PROGRESS, SETBACKS, AND NEW DIRECTIONS
Lundy Bancroft

2. AREAS OF PROGRESS Understanding of power and control
Services for battered women
Police response / high risk teams
Social support for leaving

3. AREAS OF NEED Prosecution response Quality of batterer programs
Faith community response
Understanding women
who don’t or can’t leave

4. AREAS OF CRISIS Family law, child custody Public assistance
Child protective systems
Backlash

5. HOW TO HELP Organizing activism Teach courses / do research
Community task forces
Lobbying, writing legislation
Running for office