Prologue : Catherine's experience / New Haven Project for Battered Women. I. Women, violence, and the courts. The historical roots of domestic violence / Del Martin
Domestic violence is a crime : a case study
San Francisco Family Violence Project / Esta Soler. II. The battered woman. The battered woman syndrome / Mary Ann Douglas
Battered women in court : jury and trial consultants and expert witnesses / Roberta K. Thyfault, Cathy E. Bennett, and Robert B. Hirschhorn
When battered women kill : evaluation and expert witness testimony techniques / Roberta K. Thyfault, Angela Browne, and Lenore E.A. Walker
The clinical and courtroon application of battered women's personality assessments / Lynne Bravo Rosewater. III. The children. The child witness to family violence : clinical and legal considerations / Gail S. Goodman and Mindy S. Rosenberg
Domestic violence and determination of visitation and custody in divorce / Lenore E.A. Walker and Glenace E. Edwall. IV. The offender. Perpetrators of domestic violence : an overview of counseling the court-mandated client / Anne L. Ganley
The assessment of court-mandated male batterers / Daniel Jay Sonkin
Domestic violence : the skeleton in Tarasoff's closet / Mary McNeill
Domestic violence expert testimony in the prosecution of male batterers / Daniel Jay Sonkin and William Fazio. Epilogue : justice-making in the aftermath of woman-battering / Marie M. Fortune.