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Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, to decide whether people under domestic violence protective orders have a constitutional right to own firearms,Storm Ervin and Malore Dusenbery argue for TCR’s Viewpoints series that if SCOTUS increases access to guns for people under restraining orders for domestic violence, then advocates for survivors of domestic violence and people working in the criminal legal system need to work together – quickly – to find better ways to prevent domestic violence from occurring in the first place.
Justin Roiland had been charged with one felony count each of domestic battery with corporal injury and false imprisonment connected to an alleged domestic violence incident in 2020.
Survivors in Queensland encountered officers reluctant to take further action unless they had other evidence, while others responded with racism and prejudice.
A statewide domestic violence hotline receiving nearly 30,000 calls in 2021 increased 5 percent in 2021—the second annual increase—and the number of murders and shootings involving domestic relations in Chicago increased by nearly two-thirds from 2020,
El Paso District Attorney Yvonne Rosales’ office is far more likely to decline to move forward on domestic violence cases when victims do not wish to press charges against their alleged assailant.
According to a new report by the Alaska Criminal Justice Commission, which focuses on Alaska’s exceptionally high rates of intimate partner violence, Alaskan women are in the midst of a critically dangerous time as survivors of abuse.
While Florida’s Miami-Dade County has managed to buck nationally rising homicide trends, local authorities have been tackling a spike in domestic-related killings over the past five years that reached new heights in 2021 and shows little signs of slowing.
As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close, advocates and legislators have used these past few weeks to make sweeping changes for survivor protection, as well as uncovering another layer of the DV epidemic — the connection between child abduction cases and domestic violence.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis found a positive correlation between the rise in firearm purchases and domestic violence during April and May 2020. However, they did not find the same association between firearm purchases and other types of interpersonal firearm violence.