Stop Domestic Violence

In this book, Lou Brown hits the nail on the head in his treatis of how serious domestic violence has gotten since losing his beautiful daughter, Nicole Brown on that tragic night in June 1994. Given the rising unemployment in this country, it's a book that is needed as much now as it ever was, since domestic violence is likely to grow worse as unemployment keeps rising, and tragically, several police officers died responding to a domestic violence in Pittsburgh,PA this week. I bought my copy specifically for a police chief in my town to use in developing a program to combat domestic violence.

Stop Domestic Violence was written more than ten years ago and it is still the number one classic about the need for domestic anti-violence education. If you know anyone who is trying to help a victim or knows someone is trying to get out of an abusive ralationship, this book will answer your questions and will save lives. The PeaceClinic now posts this book on the recommended reading list for the first ever Peace Practitioners Workshop on Applied Peace Technology. Cudos to the authors, Lou Brown (father of Nicole Brown Simpson), Merritt McKeon, and Francois Dubau. As Denise Brown, Founder of the Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation has said, there is no excuse for abuse. She and the authors have inspired my own work for inner peace, domestic peace, and world peace. This book can help us save lives. ~ Chloe Joquel Freeland Founding Director, The PeaceClinic World Peace Begins At Home

I am one of the authors, and wanted to update my comments from 1997. I am now a full time attorney - my email is [email protected] have gotten many faxes, calls, letters, emails etc. from survivors and family members who tell me that the book really gave them the tools they needed to stay safe and recover.It's not a book to buy and give to a victim - it is one to buy and READ, so that you can help a victim when she asks for help. Read it, then share it.Merritt

I saw myself in the pages. "Learned helplessness" is a phenomenon that is very difficult to understand if you are not a victim. Additionally, our court system (for lack of a better term) is well represented. This well written book validated my decisions as I hope it will for others. Thank you.