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How New Technologies are Changing Domestic Violence  


Author:  Nancy K. D.  Lemon, Esq..


Source: Volume 14, Number 03, February/March 2009 , pp.33-39(7)




Domestic Violence Report

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Abstract: 

New technologies have altered the nature of domestic violence, the means of combating it, and the legislation needed to keep pace with its development5. Section I of this article is a conversation from one law review journal about Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring of DV offenders. Section II discusses the impact of many new electronic technologies on the lives of survivors of domestic violence. Both sections illustrate that new technologies can be helpful sometimes, but in other situations, increase survivors’ danger. This article also reviews new literature on the subject.

Keywords: electronic monitoring; cyberstalking; “Correlative Rights and the Boundaries of Freedom: Protecting the Civil Rights of Endangered Women” by Diane Rosenfeld; “Maximal Safety, Minimal Intrusion: Monitoring Civil Protective Orders Without Implica

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