Intimate Partner Violence:
Reflections on Experience, Theory and Policy

- Edited by Mary R. Hampton and Nikki Gerrard

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. 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. Helpers and Secondary Traumatic Stress
Stephanie Martin
• Purpose
• Review
• Methodology
• Results
• Discussion

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