Domestic Violence

This type of violence can include, but not be strictly limited to, a number of other "coercive" behaviors such as actual or threatened physical injury, sexual assault, psychological abuse (including intimidation, threats, privilege manipulation), economic control, and/or progressive social isolation. One of the reasons women stay in an abusive relationship is simply because of economics. Very often, it is the male in the relationship that controls the family financial situation. Some of these individuals go to the extreme of asking their wives to provide to them a regular "accounting" of the budget money (Sheftel).

In 1992, the American Medical Association (AMA) predicted that one in three women would be assaulted by a domestic partner at least once in her lifetimeùthat means roughly four (4) million women, annually. In 1994, a report i

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s) provided by the various types of shelters, on the surface, there do not seem to be a lot of options for battered women. The ones that are available appear to be clustered more in California than in any other state. Although there is evidence to suggest similar, less publicized attention to the problem is occurring in other states as well, most notably Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Washington. An example of the options available to women trapped in this predicament has been the California Coalition for Battered Women in Prison. The high level of battered women serving in the nation's prisons was some of the impetus behind the formation of the California Coalition for Battered Women in Prison. This organization was formed in 1991 by means of the efforts a group of concerned San Francisco (California) Bay Area organizations which included Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, Battered Women's Alternatives, Southern California Women's Law Center, and California Alliance Against Domestic Violence. Using the collaborative efforts at their disposal which consisted of various shared resources including volunteer attorneys, community organizers, pri
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