Talk:Family Violence: Difference between revisions

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(A few substantive changes and a formatting problem in the Resources and links)
 
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4. '''In terms of resources''', I took out the Dial-a-Law Dating Violence script (this section isn't about dating) and added the LSS family law website stuff on child protection (I think you get a much bigger bang for your buck having this resource in there). But the text does not seem to be fitting inside the text box - you can see the problem in View. (Hunted about to try to solve this but could not.)
4. '''In terms of resources''', I took out the Dial-a-Law Dating Violence script (this section isn't about dating) and added the LSS family law website stuff on child protection (I think you get a much bigger bang for your buck having this resource in there). But the text does not seem to be fitting inside the text box - you can see the problem in View. (Hunted about to try to solve this but could not.)
5. This is quite outside the realm of copy editing, but I found it extaordinary that a chapter on Family Violence would start off with a discussion of tort law. . . ok for the classroom but for ordinary readers? If I was doing a substantive edit, I would move up the call the police, call VictimLink to be the lead items.

Revision as of 18:50, 22 April 2013

Hi JP and Nate

I have made several substantive changes here that you will need to check, JP. Point #4 is for Nate.

1. Re the police responding to a 911 call about family violence: The text suggested that the abuser would be taken into custody "in all likelihood" . . . this seems to me (based on work I've done in the area) to offer a scenario to abuse victims that, while it is based on the VAWIR policy, is in practical terms too optimistic. I changed the text to say police may arrest, may take into custody. See what you think. The same goes for describing what happens to the accused.

2. Re groups like BWSS - these days the go-to is VictimLink - I added a paragraph about that - standard VictimLink language.

3. In terms of a "safe house" I have used current thinking and referred to developing a safety plan as well as to the possibility of leaving the home and going to a safe place. (A safety plan acknowledges that many women don't leave the first, second or third time . . .)

4. In terms of resources, I took out the Dial-a-Law Dating Violence script (this section isn't about dating) and added the LSS family law website stuff on child protection (I think you get a much bigger bang for your buck having this resource in there). But the text does not seem to be fitting inside the text box - you can see the problem in View. (Hunted about to try to solve this but could not.)

5. This is quite outside the realm of copy editing, but I found it extaordinary that a chapter on Family Violence would start off with a discussion of tort law. . . ok for the classroom but for ordinary readers? If I was doing a substantive edit, I would move up the call the police, call VictimLink to be the lead items.