Critical Questions for Advocacy & Intervention

• What kinds of domestic violence related homicides are occurring in different ethnic &/or geographic communities?  What are the trends?
• What do we do in our interactions with the criminal legal system, especially about "cultural defense" claims?
• When the perpetrator[s] are batterers/abusive family members?
• When the perpetrator is a battered woman?
• How do agencies handle requests for "cultural defense" "expert" witnesses?
• From a research point of view, should domestic violence related homicides be "counted" as API even when the killer is API but the victim is not; or only when the victim is API (regardless of killer's ethnicity)?
• What sort of community organizing follows a homicide?
• What is the impact of domestic violence related homicides on survivors, other women in the community?
• What is happening to women who kill their abusers? 
• What is happening to women who attempt mother-child suicide?
• How are we getting information about domestic violence related homicides? 
• How does the media coverage - in the mainstream and ethnic press - subscribe to stereotypes ethnic communities and of domestic violence?