Women with disabilities who are exposed to intimate partner violence are doubly affected—both by abuse and by the inadequacy of society's support system. This is shown in a new thesis at Umeå ...

Senior Nova Scotia government officials are responding to concerns that they are falling short on a commitment to treat intimate-partner violence as an epidemic.

The largest brain autopsy study of women who had experienced intimate partner violence reveals substantial vascular and white matter damage in the brain, but no evidence of chronic traumatic ...

In a few days, Domestic Violence Awareness Month begins. Across October, awareness-raising activities will roll out, offering an opportunity to counter the common misconception that intimate violence ...

We study the large-scale implementation of a system of specialized domestic violence courts (SDVCs), an innovation in access to justice programs for potential victims of intimate partner violence (IPV ...

Intimate partner violence is pervasive in humanitarian settings and its impacts are far-reaching, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. We demonstrated that ...

When a mass shooting at a 21st birthday party in suburban Northern Kentucky claimed the lives of four people and wounded three others, it shocked Greater Cincinnati and made national headlines.

Domestic violence drives other violent crime in Kentucky and contributes to criminal recidivism, all while draining law ...

A house fire in Windsor's west end that hospitalized four people was a case of intimate partner violence, according to a person close to one of the victims.