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Military Law,
Criminal

Mar. 6, 2019

Veterans and domestic violence

The impact of military service can manifest itself on the lives of everyone in a veteran’s family in countless ways. Military experience, particularly multiple deployments, strains marriages and other relationships.

4th Appellate District, Division 3

Eileen C. Moore

Associate Justice
California Courts of Appeal

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Veterans and domestic violence
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Our domestic violence laws were developed during the early stages of the Women's Liberation Movement as part of its strategy to alter long-held cultural attitudes about violence against women. Advocates across the country fought long and hard to force police and prosecutors to treat victims of domestic violence with the same dignity and respect shown to victims of other crimes. Laws based on the feminist theory that men used violence to exert power and control over wo...

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