Unified Family Courts: How Will They Serve Victims of Domestic Violence?

Family Law Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-146

  Dunford Jackson, Billie Lee ^a   Frederick, Loretta ^b   Hart, Barbara ^b   Hofford, Meredith ^a  

^a Natl Cncl Juven Fam Ct Judges   (United States)

^b Battered Women's Justice Project   (United States)

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References (32)

1. HUNTER HURST ET AL., OHIO FAMILY COURT FEASIBILITY STUDY FINAL REPORT, NATIONAL CENTER FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE 5-6 (May 1997); H. Ted Rubin, Should Juvenile Courts Become Family Courts?, COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS REP., Sept.-Oct. 1995, at 4.
2. HUNTER HURST ET AL., OHIO FAMILY COURT FEASIBILITY STUDY FINAL REPORT, NATIONAL CENTER FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE 5-6 (May 1997); H. Ted Rubin, Should Juvenile Courts Become Family Courts?, COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS REP., Sept.-Oct. 1995, at 4.
3. DADE COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COURT, report prepared for the Second Annual NADCP Training Conference, July 10, 1995 [hereinafter DADE COUNTY REPORT].
4. DADE COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COURT, report prepared for the Second Annual NADCP Training Conference, July 10, 1995 [hereinafter DADE COUNTY REPORT].
5. Id.
6. Id.
7. Leonard Edwards, Reducing Family Violence: The Role of the Family Violence Council, 41 Juv. & FAM. CT. J. 1, 2 (1992).
8. DADE COUNTY REPORT, supra note 2.
9. Screening is a difficult issue and must be accomplished with sensitivity to confidentiality in order to avoid putting the victim at additional risk. Some work has been done in developing screening guidelines. See DEBORAH GOELMAN ET AL., "CHILD CUSTODY AND FULL FAITH AND CREDIT": A PASSPORT TO SAFETY, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JUDGES, 1997, at 108-10. These tools remain in developmental stages.
10. RONET BACHMAN, & LINDA E. SALTZMAN, U.S. DEP'T OF JUSTICE, BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS, NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: ESTIMATES FROM THE REDESIGNED SURVEY 1,4 (1995).
11. Edwards, supra note 5, at 5.
12. Michael Town, The Unified Family Court: Therapeutic Justice for Families and Children, Address to the Chicago Bar Association 9, March 11, 1994.
13. Id.
14. DEBORAH GOELMAN, ET AL. THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON YOUR LEGAL PRACTICE, A LAWYER'S HANDBOOK (1996), at 2-4, 2-6.
15. Id.
16. Barbara Hart, Gentle Jeopardy: The Further Endangerment of Battered Women and Children in Custody Mediation, 7 MED. Q. 4, 317-30 (1990).
17. Barbara Hart, Battered Women and the Criminal Justice System, 36 AM. BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST 624-38 (1993).
18. Edwards, supra note 5, at 2-5.
19. Hunter Hurst, Family Courts in the United States, 1 NCJJ SNAPSHOT, May 1996, at 1.
20. HURST, supra note 1, at 61
21. Id.; UTAH FAMILY COURT TASK FORCE: FINAL REPORT TO THE UTAH JUDICIAL COUNCIL, Dec. 16, 1994, at 35.
22. Robert E. Shepherd, The Unified Family Court: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, 8 CRIM. JUST. 2 (1993).
23. Rubin, supra note 1; see also HURST, supra note 1, at 61.
24. Assessing the Need for a Family Court System in Colorado: Report to the Legislature, Dec. 23, 1994, at 5.
25. Interview with Howard Snyder, Director of Research, National Center for Juvenile Justice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Feb. 1998).
26. DIANE CRAVEN, U.S. DEP'T OF JUSTICE, BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS, FEMALE VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME (1996).
27. Rubin, supra note 1; Town, supra note 10, at 12.
28. Rubin, supra note 1, at 5.
29. Id.
30. See HURST, supra note 1, at 5-6; HUNTER HURST, JR., LEGISLATIVE APPROACHES TO COORDINATION OF CHILD AND FAMILY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, NATIONAL CENTER FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE, 2-4 (1992).
31. See Town, supra note 10, at 12. Robert W. Page, Family Courts: An Effective Judicial Approach to the Resolution of Family Disputes, 44 JUV. & FAM. CT. J. 3 (1993).
32. Hart, supra note 14.