Dr. Richard L. Davis is a retired lieutenant from the Brockton, Mass., Police Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice Management from LaSalle University. He has a graduate degree in criminal justice from Anna Maria College and another in liberal arts with a concentration in history from Harvard University. Contact Richard L. Davis: rldavis@post.harvard.edu.
This Month’s Column:
- Domestic Violence and Police Officers as Abuser or Victim
Read Last Month’s Column:
- Compassion & Empathy
- Domestic Violence: Regardless of Age or Gender
- (Really) Understanding Domestic Violence
Add your comments to the discussion on Richard L. Davis’s column in the Domestic Violence forum
Dr. Davis is a member of the International Honor Society of Historians and an instructor for Quincy College at Plymouth. He is the vice president of the Board of Directors for the Community Center for Non-Violence and the vice president of Family Nonviolence, Inc.
His collaborative domestic violence support web site, “The Cop and the Survivor,” with law summaries, editorials and other information, can be found at: www.rhiannon3.com/cs
He is the author of Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies by Praeger publishers and has written numerous articles for newspapers, journals, and magazines concerning the issue of domestic violence. He writes a monthly column for www.nycop.com , his column here for www.PoliceOne.com, and has a web site at www.policewriter.com. A most recent work is an article that defines domestic violence in the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Psychology by the Oxford University Press and Yale University.
He lives in Plymouth, Mass., with his wife and the two youngest of five children. He may be reached at rldavis@post.harvard.edu.