Burlington Public Library

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...

In this book, domestic violence expert Lundy Bancroft uses his perspective as a therapist for abusive and controlling men to help women, their children, and other family members who have been touched by abuse understand why abusers behave the way they do and what can be done about it. Bancroft teaches women how to survive and improve an abusive relationship; how to determine how dangerous an abuser is and when it is impossible to rectify a situation;...

Laurel Shields awakens to find her physician husband, Warren, in his study, wildly pulling books from the shelves. A home pregnancy test confirms Laurel's fear that she is pregnant, and she believes her lover is the father. Later that morning, Laurel is surprised to find her husband still at home, pale and fearful. Then, in come the children, innocent of it all. In less than five hours the Shields house becomes the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege....

The purpose of this position paper is to further clarify the DVOMB's position, and its intent and language in The Standards for Treatment with Court Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders, 2002 (The Standards) regarding these evaluations (Sections 7.2.1 and 7.2.2).

Domestic violence (DV) is the manipulative attempt by one person to obtain power and control over his or her intimate partner through a coercive, systematic pattern of abusive behavior. The intense emotional involvement between the victim, offender, and oftentimes children, distinguishes DV from other types of crime. The purpose of DV offender treatment in Colorado is to increase victim and community safety by reducing offender risk of recidivism....

The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction -- power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends -- Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ -- meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray -- Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet. Ricky...

The purpose of this exploratory study is to better understand the process by which the domestic violence (DV) cases (misdemeanor and felony) are "flagged" in the state court administrative record data set, to profile those cases, and to compare recidivism rates of those who received DV treatment with those who did not. Because we were unable to identify with confidence cases referred to DV treatment, we identified a comparison group of non-DV cases...