Intimate Partner Violence:
Reflections on Experience, Theory and Policy

- Edited by Mary R. Hampton and Nikki Gerrard

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Her Husband Did That To Her
    - Sharon Butala

1. Introduction
   Mary R. Hampton and Nikki Gerrard
   • The Context: Canadian Prairies What is Policy?
   • What is Policy?
   • The Formation and Application of Policy
   • The Impact of Policy on Victims of Violence and Anti-Violence Workers
   • Developing Good Policies About Intimate Partner Violence
2. There But For Fortune: How Women Experience Abuse by Intimate Partners
   Leslie Tutty
   • Myths About Women Abused by Intimate Partners
   • Introducing the Research and the Women Respondents
   • The Abusive Partners
   • Meeting the Abusive Partner
   • The Genesis of the Abuse
   • Explaining their Partners' Abusive Behaviours
   • The Nature of the Abuse Throughout the Relationship
   • The Impact of the Abuse After Thoughts
3. Bound, Bonded and Battered: Immigrant and Visible Minority Women's Struggle to Cope with Violence
   Nayyar Javed in partnership with Nikki Gerrard
   • Social Exclusion and Bondedness to Cultural Community
   • The Silence
   • Breaking the Silence
   • Limitations of This Chapter and Final Words
4. Understanding Theories and their Links to Intervention Strategies
   Carmen Gill
   • Understanding Domestic Violence
   • Approaching Domestic Violence
   • Defining Domestic Violence
   • A Plethora of Explanations
   • Micro/individual Level Explanations
   • Macro/societal Level Explanations
   • Connecting the Diversity of Explanations to Intervention Strategies
5. The Harm Reduction and Abused Women's Safety (HRAWS) Framework
   Karen M. Nielsen and Ann Marie Dewhurst
   • Risk and the Abused Woman
   • The Framework: Harm Reduction and Abusive Women's Safety (HRAWS)
   • Conclusion
6. "Over Policed and Under Protected": A Question of Justice for Aboriginal Women
   Jane Ursel
   • The Fault Line
   • Status of Manitoba Justice Policy on Domestic Violence
   • Arrest Practices
   • Class/Ethnic Bias and Policing
   • Discretion
   • Does Zero Tolerance Provide Protection?
   • The Consequences of a High Arrest Rate
   • Final Thoughts
7. 7. Femicide in Saskatchewan
   Deb Farden
   • Introduction
   • Research Methods
   • Findings
   • Ten Deaths: Were They Preventable?
   • Discussion
   • Preventative Themes from Interviews: Rena and Marilyn, Two Women Who Survived
   • Integration of Findings
   • Discussion and Recommendations
8. 8. Helpers and Secondary Traumatic Stress
   Stephanie Martin
   • Purpose
   • Review
   • Methodology
   • Results
   • Discussion
9. 9. The Power of Policy: Anti-Violence Workers Speak Their Peace
   Mary R. Hampton
   • What Do Anti-Violence Workers Think of Existing Policies
   • Inter-Relationships
   • Vision of a Violence-Free World

• References
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements