Battering

Lesbian Battering

In the 1970s, the women’s movement raised public awareness relative to the extent and magnitude of domestic violence in American society. Victim rights advocates urged the criminal justice system to increase the certainty and celerity of the legal response to domestic violence. They demanded that the system protect victims by arresting, prosecuting, and punishing batterers.

Mutual Battering

Common beliefs about the form of domestic violence termed mutual battering assume that it involves physical, verbal, and/or psychological fighting between married intimate partners. The term can, however, be extended to include types of abuse between other family members such as siblings, cousins, and same-sex partners. In fact, many discussions about mutual battering seem to

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