Criminal justice professor Susan Herman and nursing professor Janice Humphreys provide two different frameworks for looking at violence against women and children. Humphreys discusses research on resilience and models of response to trauma among battered women and children, while Herman discusses "parallel justice." Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, moderates.
This video is from a two-day workshop held at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in October, 2011, made possible by generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence."
Susan Herman
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Susan Herman is a professor of criminal justice and the author of Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime. From 1997 to 2005, she served as the executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, the nation’s leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims.
Janice C. Humphreys
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Janice C Humphreys, RN, CS, NP, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California at San Francisco. Her research addresses the strengths and experiences of battered women and their children using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Bruce Shapiro
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Bruce Shapiro is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide from the Center’s headquarters at Columbia University in New York City. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National.
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