NCJ Number
114275
Date Published
1986
Length
86 pages
Annotation
This report describes the initiatives taken by the government of Alberta, Canada in response to 40 of the recommendations made in 1984 by Canadian ministers at all levels of government and focusing on ways of addressing the problem of wife beating.
Abstract
The recommendations focused on eliminating sex stereotyping in school materials, providing life skills training including the topic of family violence in high schools, developing police operating procedures for handling domestic assault, instituting criminal proceedings in cases of wife beatings, and providing adequate funding for shelters for battered women. Actions taken to respond to these and other recommendations included research and pilot projects, the establishment of an Office for the Prevention of Family Violence, an increase in funding for shelters, provision of special instructions to prosecutors, and the review of school materials. Details about each recommendation and responses to it and list of additional initiatives in Alberta are included. For descriptions of actions taken at the Federal level and in other provinces, see NCJ 114276-85.