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This book is developed from my doctoral dissertation, submitted to Stanford University in December 2005. I would like to offer special thanks to my principal adviser, Professor Deborah Rhode, and also to the other members of my reading committee, Professors Lawrence Friedman and Deborah Hensler. Professor Donna Coker taught a comprehensive and thought-provoking seminar on domestic violence at Stanford in the fall 1994 semester, which provided an invaluable grounding for the dissertation. And several people supported, encouraged, inspired, and cajoled me to get it written, including Rashmi Goel, Kathy Mack, Ann Genovese, Lesley Laing, Julie Stubbs, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Heather Douglas, Bronwyn Statham, and my parents, Jean and Neil Hunter. My heartfelt thanks to them and, most of all, to my patient and long-suffering partner, Dr. Laurie Duggan.
Part of chapter 3 was previously published as “Styles of Judging: How Magistrates Deal With Applications for Intervention Orders,” Alternative Law Journal, 30, 231–236 (2005). Parts of chapters 2, 4, and 6 concerning varying understandings of domestic violence were previously published as “Narratives of Domestic Violence,” Sydney Law Review, 28, 733–776 (2006), and are reproduced with permission of the editors of the Sydney Law Review. The sections on consent orders in chapters 3 and 5 were previously published as part of a chapter titled “Consent in Violent Relationships,” in R. Hunter and S. Cowan (Eds.), Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements With Law and Subjectivity (Oxford: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007), pp. 158–173, and are reproduced with the permission of Taylor and Francis Books (U.K.). The power and control wheel in appendix E is reproduced with the permission of Springer Publishing Company, LLC, New York, NY 10036.