Richard Davis, ALM - Understanding Domestic Violence

Understanding Domestic Violence
with Richard Davis, ALM

Richard L. Davis is a retired lieutenant from the Brockton (Mass.) Police Department. He completed studies in criminal justice management at LaSalle University. He has a graduate degree in criminal justice from Anna Maria College, and another in liberal arts with a concentration in history from Harvard University.

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Spanking and the cycle of domestic violence - 05/11/2011 Comments

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The tragic toll of domestic violence - 02/16/2011

Connecting the dots of violent behavior - 12/17/2010 Comments

The 'sexting' prosecutor: What would you do if you were in charge? - 10/15/2010 Comments

The 'avoidable' arrest and the issue of race - 09/06/2010 Comments

Prevention versus protection: Law enforcement, homicide, and domestic violence - 07/19/2010

Beyond absurd: Analyzing the IPADV training guide - 04/07/2010 Comments

PoliceOne Analysis: The "arrest default position" for domestics - 09/07/2009 Comments

Your emotional survival: Links and resources to help prevent officer suicide - 05/11/2009 Comments

Exploring law enforcement's response to "intimate partner violence" - 02/21/2009

The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment - 04/30/2008 Comments

Mandatory arrest: A flawed policy based on a false premise - 03/31/2008 Comments

Mandatory arrest: References - 03/28/2008

Domestic violence and mandatory arrests - 11/19/2007 Comments

Proactive domestic violence intervention for LE families - 02/13/2006

Dual arrests and the domestic violence arrests of women - 04/08/2005

National Institute of Justice Studies ignored - 02/24/2004

Violence against women and the statistics - 01/21/2004

Domestic violence intervention for officers and their families - 01/21/2004

The many different faces of domestic violence - 01/21/2004

Domestic violence and police officers as abuser or victim - 01/21/2004

Compassion and empathy - 01/21/2004

Domestic Violence: Regardless of age or gender - 01/21/2004

(Really) understanding domestic violence - 01/21/2004

Richard Davis is a member of the International Honor Society of Historians and an instructor for Quincy College at Plymouth. He is the vice president of the board of directors for the Community Center for Non-Violence and the vice president of Family Nonviolence Inc.

His collaborative domestic violence support Web site, The Cop and the Survivor, with law summaries, editorials and other information, can be found at www.rhiannon3.net/cs/index.html

He is the author of "Domestic Violence: Intervention, Prevention, Policies and Solutions" from CRC Press and "Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies" from Praeger publishers. He has written numerous articles for newspapers, journals and magazines concerning the issue of domestic violence. He writes a monthly column for www.nycop.com and an occasional column for www.PoliceOne.com. He also has a Web site at www.policewriter.com. A recent work is an article that defines domestic violence in the multivolume Encyclopedia of Psychology by the Oxford University Press and Yale University.

He lives in Plymouth, Mass., with his wife and the two youngest of five children.

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