For further, deeper and a more accurate understanding of this issue,
I suggest you all read an article by Prof. Roger Levesque (teaches at
Indiana University - he is both a lawyer and a Ph.D.), published in 1997, in
the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law (4 (2), pp. 339-397, called
"Dating violence, adolescents and the law." His was the only article I could
find on this subject and the only research on this problem (and I searched
far and wide - including the Justice Dept, the national resource center on
DV, etc) when I was writing a paper on "sexual harassment and sexual
violence in schools" (commissioned by the Justice Dept, Office of Juv.
Justice and Deliq Prevention - copies are not available yet - maybe by the
late fall).
Nan D. Stein, Ed.D.
Senior Researcher
Wellesley College Center for Research on Women
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203
781/283-2502
781/283-2504 (fax)
NStein@Wellesley.edu
At 04:36 PM 7/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Marylin-- I should add to the longer message replying to your request
>for info on domestic vionece laws--that people tend to forget college
>students (as I just did, in concetrating on high school and grade
>school)--they too are subject to domestic violence laws, and protected
>by them. For college students who have despaired of getting Title IX
>enforcement out of the Office for Civil Rights, and blocked from help
>via the civil courts, as in Gebser v. Lago Vista, the new criminal codes
>may be really helpful.
> One caveat: many college campuses keep their own stable of cops; and it
>is not in the college's financial interest to have accurate reports of
>campus crime. If it is possible, make domestic violence reports to
>multiple agencies and to the public to help forestall falsification of
>records.
> Linda Purrington
> Title IX Advocates
> lpurring@earthlink.net
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