We need to rethink the way we are responding to gender-based violence. Be the Peace Institute’s Board Chair and faculty at Dalhousie School of Social Work, Dr. Nancy Ross, shares promising practices for healing and prevention for all of those affected by violence: victims, perpetrators, children and communities.
"In general, women are afraid of not being believed and not having their cases taken seriously and that's taken to a whole other level when the abuser is part of the system a victim is supposed to be reporting to," said Geiger-Bardswich.
Research done in the United States suggests that officers are actually more likely to abuse their domestic partners than the general public, said Nicholas Bala, a professor of family law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. He said there hasn't been enough research done in Canada to determine if that's the case here.
