1. Domestic violence and gender relations: contexts and connections / Jalna Hanmer. 2. Revealing the hidden figure of domestic violence / Jayne Mooney. 3. Violence against black women in the home / Amina Mama. 4. Marital rape and marital murder / Sue Lees. 5. Children's and mothers' experiences of support and protection following domestic violence / Caroline McGee. 6. Child protection and domestic violence: findings from a Rowntree/NSPCC study / Marianne Hester. 7. Unsung innovation: the history of work with children in UK domestic violence refuges / Gill Hague, Audrey Mullender, Liz Kelly and Ellen Malos with Thangam Debbonaire. 8. Women, anger and domestic violence: the implications for legal defences to murder / Sue Griffiths. 9. The criminal justice response to women who kill: an interview with Helena Kennedy / Sheila Quaid and Catherine Itzin. 10. Southall Black Sisters: domestic violence campaigns and alliances across the divisions of race, gender and class / Pragna Patel. 11. The politics and policies of responding to violence against women / R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash. 12. Domestic violence and social policy: perspectives from Women's Aid / Nicola Harwin and Jackie Barron. 13. Domestic violence and housing / Rebecca Morley. 14. Developing policies and protocols in Duluth, Minnesota / Ellen L. Pence and Coral McDonnell. 15. Enhancing multi-agency work / Davina James-Hanman. 16. Confronting violent men / Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Kate Cavanagh and Ruth Lewis. 17. The Emerge program / David Adams. 18. Policing repeated domestic violence by men: a new approach / Jalna Hanmer and Sue Griffiths. 19. The Zero Tolerance campaigns / Evelyn Gillan and Elaine Samson. 20. Gendering domestic violence: the influence of feminism on policy and practice / Catherine Itzin.