Confronting Violence

Response To the Victimization of Women and Children, Volume 8, No. 4, 1985

This issue of Response includes a detailed article about a well-known domestic violence case in Connecticut that changed how police officers reacted to "domestics"—calls from arguing and endangered spouses. The U.S. District Court ruled in favor of Tracy Thurman, a woman who was battered, and her son; and found that Thurman suffered from extreme negligence at the hands of her local police department at the height of violent acts against her by her spouse.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine