Crime & Police

Therapist Nancy Lantz runs counseling groups for men arrested for domestic violence. Her most important rule for the groups: Accountability.

Ten years ago, Colorado began to force batterers into treatment programs. But do they work?

Dave Thomas lives with the devastation of domestic violence every day.

Some domestic violence victims turn to the extreme end of the victim-services spectrum: They call Mike Newell.

For some victims, there’s no such thing as a “rush to justice.”

The rush to protect battered women has turned domestic violence into “the social issue of the Nineties” — and raised issues of fairness for both perpetrators and victims.

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

Colorado has become a national laboratory for domestic-violence programs. Sometimes it’s a strange science.

For offenders arrested in Jefferson County, speed is of the essence.