Domestic Violence

No amount of training can undo the violence someone experienced at home as a child, but it can help break the cycle.

NFL Looks To Training To Prevent Domestic Violence By Players

9:14am September 24, 2014

by Laura Starecheski

It's not violence on the job that makes some pro football players beat their wives or children, psychologists say. It's often childhood experience, fanned by a culture that accepts such behavior.

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Cyberstalking victims often don't know they're being tracked through their own phone because spyware apps like mSpy use misleading labels (labeled "android.sys.process" here) and don't take up much data.

National

Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims

9:27am September 22, 2014

by Aarti Shahani

Cyberstalking has transformed domestic abuse in the U.S. Tracking tools called spyware make it cheap and easy for someone to monitor a partner secretly, 24 hours a day.

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Kira Kazantsev says she isolated herself from her friends when they tried to help her get away from an abusive boyfriend.

Newly Crowned Miss America Felt Helpless Against Domestic Violence

9:09am September 16, 2014

by Maanvi Singh

Pageant contestants often pick feel-good issues for their platform topics. Miss New York chose domestic violence because she lived it. There are many reasons why women stay with an abuser, she says.

Crime

Remembering Victims of Domestic Violence

6:19pm June 25, 2013

by Keri Brown

A candlelight vigil will take place in Greensboro Wednesday to remember the slain victims of domestic violence.

Young women listen to a talk on domestic violence and HIV prevention near Lome, Togo, in April. Abused women in sub-Saharan Africa and India are at higher risk for HIV than women who haven't experienced violence.

Health & Safety

WHO Finds Violence Against Women Is 'Shockingly' Common

9:15am June 24, 2013

The first comprehensive global study to be conducted finds that domestic violence kills many women and leaves others with long-standing physical and mental health problems, including sexually transmitted diseases and depression.

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