Fall is typically the time of year when prevention experts raise awareness about domestic violence. In North Dakota, outreach ...

A 22-year-old college baseball player was gunned down in Pennsylvania last week after knocking on the wrong door. On Tuesday, a 58-year-old police corporal was charged with manslaughter. Tom Hanson ...

Domestic violence can take many forms—physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape, emotional abuse, intimidation, economic deprivation, threats of violence. Any situation in which one partner wields power over ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. On April 27, 2024, ...

Domestic violence takes many insidious forms, but one that is only now finally gaining fuller recognition in family and criminal courts is chemical control, or the intentional misuse of drugs and ...

People sometimes have a hard time believing that domestic abuse matters in wealthy families. And by “people,” I mean judges, juries, neighbors, colleagues, psychotherapists, and everyone else. Some ...

Nearly 3 in 10 women and 1 in 10 men in this country have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by a partner, and report it had a major impact on their functioning. Those cases are just a ...

When most people hear the words “domestic violence,” they think of physical harm. Arizona’s new family court law, the Alec and Lydia Act (HB2995), effective June 22, 2026, changes that picture ...

Domestic violence goes largely unaddressed in workplace settings. It is frequently viewed as a private issue that should be resolved in the home, one that must not “interfere” with the duties and ...

When it comes to domestic violence, cases involving catastrophic physical violence are the ones that most often make it into the media. But our new research shows there are often signs of trouble long ...

A Kentucky bill would create a public registry of repeat domestic violence offenders after two or more convictions, and while some survivors support it, advocacy group Zero-V says it isn't ready to ...

In March 2016, hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was caught on camera violently assaulting singer Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine in a Los Angeles hotel hallway – kicking, dragging and throwing objects ...