Material Listing

Economic Resource Connections for Battered Women: A Collaborative Community Approach

This newsletter features Her Will, Inc. It describes their approach to establishing and maintaining resource connections for battered women and their families. A list of BCS papers on job opportunities and training for battered women is also included.

Stalking in America: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey

Addresses these and related questions:

How much stalking is there in the United States?
Who stalks whom?
How often do stalkers overtly threaten their victims?
How often is stalking reported to the police?
What are the psychological and social consequences of stalking?

Strategies to Expand Battered Women's Economic Opportunities

This document is an overview of strategies implemented to increase economic opportunities for low-income women and families. Organizing efforts, job training and opportunity development, creating assets, and governmental responses are described.

Battered Women's Reports of Their Partner's and Children's Cruelty to Animals

This research study describes how abuse of pets is a method employed by batterers to control their partners, contributes to the impact on children exposed to violence, and may also be related to batterers' lethality.

Final Report on the project entitled: Animal Welfare and Domestic Violence

This study assesses animal maltreatment in samples of women seeking safety at shelters and community samples of women. Women in shelter were much more likely (54%) to report partners' hurting or killing of their pets than women not in shelter (3.5%).