Why Do They Stay? Interpersonal Violence and the Battered Women’s Movement in Idaho.
From Working on Wife Abuse , a directory of services for survivors of domestic violence, compiled by Betsy Warrior, 1978. Courtesy: National Library of Medicine. On July 5, 2018, five people were fatally shot in the state of Idaho. Three of the victims were female, allegedly killed by their male partner or spouse. Two of the deceased were suspected suicides; men who shot themselves after killing the women. In an article published in the Idaho State Journal on July 9, 2018, reporter Madeleine Coles spoke with Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen, who noted that domestic violence was a common occurrence in southeast Idaho and that his deputies had “arrested more people lately for domestic violence incidents than they have for drunk driving,” reversing a previous trend. [1] Bannock County Prosecutor Steve Herzog pointed out that in many domestic violence cases, victims were unable to sustain themselves financially due to lack of education and/or employment, and th...