What is Domestic Violence? Domestic violence is a crime without demographics, gender, or national border, making it a global issue. While men do and can fall victim to domestic violence, women and children are its highest numbering victims. TheDomestic Violence Definition is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one […]

To define domestic violence, you first need to have an understanding of a domestic relationship.  In California this is defined in the Penal Code 273.5.  It says that the victim is at least one of the following: The offender’s spouse or former spouse The offender’s cohabitant or former cohabitant The offender’s fiance or fiancee, or […]