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Domestic Violence: What Happens When Tempers Flair

By Steven Rodriguez

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a woman is beaten every 15 seconds and domestic violence is the leading cause of injury for women between the ages of 15 and 44. However, it isn’t just women who are affected by this travesty, sixty-three percent of the young men between the ages of 11 and 20 who are serving time for homicide have killed their mother’s abuser. Domestic violence isn’t just a crime that ends when the judge’s gavel bangs, it splinters into a variety of other crimes. Unfortunately, both the famous and the unknown are victims and perpetrators of this crime. In 2004, domestic violence disputes made up 45% of all assault arrests. As a result, the penalty for such convictions has grown stiffer, with more jail time, higher fines, loss of child visitation rights and other forms of punishment which hit close to home...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).