Rainbow House Library

Resources

In addition to Rainbow House, among the other resources offering support and information about domestic violence to women are:

ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
801 South 11th Street
Springfield, Illinois 62703
Phone: (217) 789-2830
Website: www.ilcadv.org

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION COMMISSION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
740 15th Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005-1022
Website: http://www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html

ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
P.O. Box 120108
Boston, Mass. 02112
Hotline: (617) 338-2355
Phone: (617) 338-2350
Website: http://www.atask.org

AYUDA, INC.
1707 Kalorama Road, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
Phone: (202) 387-4848
Website: http://www.ayudainc.org

BATTERED WOMEN’S JUSTICE PROJECT (three offices)
BWJP CRIMINAL JUSTICE OFFICE
The Criminal Justice Center
2104 Fourth Avenue South, Suite B
Minneapolis, Minn. 55404
Phone: (800) 903-0111, ext. 1
(612) 824-8768
Website: www.bwjp.org
Email: technicalassistance@bwjp.org

BWJP CIVIL JUSTICE OFFICE
1601 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20009
Phone: (800) 903-0111, ext. 1
(202) 265-0967, ext. 130

BWJP Defense Office
125 S. 9th Street, Suite 302
Philadelphia, PA. 19107
Phone: (800) 903-0111, ext. 3
(215) 351-0779

CORPORATE ALLIANCE TO END PARTNER VIOLENCE
2416 East Washington Street, Suite E
Bloomington, Illinois 61704
Phone: (309) 664-0667
Website: www.caepv.org
Email: caepv@caepv.org

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
800 K Street, NW, Suite 920
Washington, D.C. 20530
Phone: (202) 307-6026
TTY: (202) 307-2277

EQUALITY NOW
P.O. Box 20646
Columbus Circle Station
New York, New York 10023
Website: http://www.equalitynow.org

ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT
100 north 16th Street
Springfield, Ill. 62703
Phone: (217) 753-4117
Website: www.icasa.org

NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1603
Denver, Colo. 80203
Phone: (303) 839-1852
Website: www.ncadv.org
Email: mainoffice@ncadv.org

VDAY
Website: www.vday.org

Bibliography

Family Violence: Facts and Figures, NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE FACT SHEET, available at: http://www.ncjrs.gov/spotlight/family_violence/facts.html.

Crime Data Brief: Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, U.S. Department of Justice, Feb. 2003, available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv01.pdf.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, March 1998.

Intimate Partner Violence, Special Report, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, revised Jan. 31, 2002, available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv.pdf.

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION COMMISSION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Mobilizing the Legal Profession to Provide Access to Justice and Safety for Victims of Domestic Violence, August 12, 2008, available at: http://www.abanet.org/domviol/statistics.html.

BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS, Family Violence Statistics, June 2005, available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fvs.pdf.

E. Stark and A. Flitcraft, Violence Among Intimates, An Epidemiological Review, HANDBOOK OF FAMILY VIOLENCE, Ed. V.D., Van Hasselt, et al., 1988).

Margaret Graham Tebo, When Home Comes to Work, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, Sept. 2005, pp. 42-47. Available on-line at: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/when_home_comes_to_work/.

SAFE FROM THE START, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, available at: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/182789.pdf.

Family Violence, NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE, available at: http://www.ncjrs.gov/spotlight/family_violence/Summary.html.

J.A. Gazmararian et al., Violence and Reproductive Health; Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL, Vol. 4 (2), 2000.

Assessment of the Current Response to Domestic Violence in Chicago 2007, REPORT BY THE CITY OF CHICAGO MAYOR’S OFFICE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, available at: www.cityofchicago.org/domesticviolence.

E.W. GONDOLF, BATTERER INTERVENTION SYSTEMS (Thousand Oaks, CA: Age Press).

THE INVISIBLE VICTIMS: CHILDREN OF THE WAR AT HOME, published by The Family Prevention Fund, 1991.

FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND: The Facts on Domestic Violence (citing The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Justice, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, July 2000).

Jay Silverman, Anita Ray, Jeanne Hathaway, Dating Violence Against Adolescent Girls and Associated Substance Use, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy and Suicidality, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Vol. 286 (No. 5) (2001).

U.S. DEP’T JUSTICE, VIOLENCE BY INTIMATES: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Former or Current Spouses, Boyfriends and Girlfriends (March 1998).

MURRAY STRAUSE ET AL., PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN FAMILIES: RISK FACTORS AND ADAPTATIONS TO VIOLENCE IN 8,145 FAMILIES (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990).

Other Relevant Publications

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Family Violence Statistics (June 2005), available on-line at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fvs.pdf

Homicide: A Leading Cause of Injury Deaths Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States, 1991-1999, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, March 2005, Vol. 95, No. 3.

CHRISTOPHER KILMARTIN AND JULIE ALLISON, MEN’S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: THEORY, RESEARCH, AND ACTIVISM (Lawrence Erlbaum, Associates, 2007).

RUSS FUNK, REACHING MEN: STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING SEXIST ATTITUDES, BEHAVIORS AND VIOLENCE (Jist Life, April 2006).

The Impact of Violence in the Lives of Working Women: Creating Solutions, Creating Change, available on-line at: http://www.legalmomentum.org/pub/pubs/CreatingSolutions/pdf.

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