Domestic Violence Law [Paperback]

Nancy K. D. Lemon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0314248412 | ISBN-13: 978-0314248411 | Publication Date: January 1, 2001 | Edition: 1st

This softcover volume presents an overview of the policy issues related to domestic violence law. Through articles, book excerpts, cases, and statutes, the author encourages discussion of the legal system’s role in domestic violence situations. Topics range from basic issues, such as spousal and child abuse, to highly controversial issues, including gay and lesbian battering and victims as criminal defendants. Ideal as a textbook for domestic violence courses or as a supplemental text in other types of classes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A unique and comprehensive collection of domestic violence law sources including published appellate cases and law review articles, but also selections from the fields of sociology,psychology and anthropology. Samples of current legislation, Congressional memoranda, restraining order forms and articles from the popular press, including newsletters and brochures from hard-to-obtain sources are included. Nancy Lemon has taught this course for almost ten years and has written many pioneering pieces of legislation in this area. The materials are comprehensive in examining different points of view on the subject of domestic violence and law. They help the student explore the tension between theory and practice, a critical point in teaching this subject. An historical perspective is given so that students can see both the ways the laws have changed over the last century and also the ways they have not changed. Domestic Violence Law lends itself to discussions of the role of the attorney in crafting the law, not simply following it. Designed principally for law students, Domestic Violence Law has much of value for women's rights and battered women advocates, and any interested non-specialist general reader as well. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Lemon (Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley) has worked in the domestic violence field full time since 1980, in many different roles. She was a staff attorney at several domestic violence agencies, dealing with hundreds of victims of domestic violence. She has trained hundreds of police, prosecutors, social workers, judges, advocates, custody evaluators, and others. She's written or assisted with the writing of many domestic violence laws; done consulting and speaking on this topic internationally; testified many times as a domestic violence expert in court; written several curricula for judges and court personnel. She is the assistant editor for Domestic Violence Report, the most widely read and useful newsletter on this topic.

Product Details

• Paperback: 891 pages
• Publisher: West Group; 1st edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0314248412
• ISBN-13: 978-0314248411
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,919,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Editor is Factually Challenged, December 30, 2009

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Alexander Rea (Mt. Carmel, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Domestic Violence Law (Textbook Binding)

Lemon, the editor of this work, has been engaged in a high-profile debate with philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers over the past six months regarding factual errors in this book. As a result, Lemon (a lecturer at Berkeley's law school) has publicly made a fool of herself by insisting on the historicity of Romulus as the "first king of Rome," and employing blatant logical fallacies to justify misrepresentations of statistical data in her book. (Most high school Latin students learn early in their studies that Romulus was a mythical figure fathered by Mars and suckled by a she-wolf, but Lemon stubbornly argued that Romulus was a real person who wrote laws authorizing men to beat their wives!) Lemon's unfortunate forays into the fields of ancient history and medical statistics have brought embarrassment to Berkeley and its law school.

1.0 out of 5 stars This Book Shouldn't Have Been Printed AT ALL!!!, July 29, 2011

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Jeffrey A. Harrell "WarDog" (Coventry Ct.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Domestic Violence Law (Paperback)

The Publishing Company Should Be ASHAMED That It Even Printed This Book, And They Should Fire The Editor For Gross Incompetence And Negligence. The So-Called "Author" Should Also Be Ashamed Of Herself For Writing A Book FULL Of Egregious Errors, Both In Her "Facts" And In Her History. She Is Either Completely Incompetent Or A Liar, But In Truth, I Think SHE IS BOTH...