Categories: Criminal Law Family Law
Instructor(s)
Meuer, TeresaCourse Data
Room 5223
M 5:40pm-8:30pm
Pass/Fail: Yes
Course Description
Course focuses on state and federal laws, policy and practices impacting victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. Topics examined include dynamics of domestic abuse; restraining orders; mandatory arrest law via law enforcement, prosecution & sentencing responses; batterers treatment; battered women who kill & the battered women syndrome; family law, including custody/physical placement, relocation, mediation, effects on children who witness violence; Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); domestic abuse against the elderly; and welfare reform. Class involves papers, observation of injunction hearings and interactive exercises.