Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services

About Barbara J. HartCarl G. BuzawaEve S. Buzawa

Eve Buzawa Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in the School of Criminology & Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She served as Chair of the School from 1995 2013 and Director of the School from September 2013-June 2016 when she retired. Dr. Buzawa received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester and her Masters and Doctoral degrees from the School of Criminal Justice Michigan State University. Dr. Buzawa has authored and edited numerous books journal articles and monographs in the field of domestic violence.  She has also served as a Principal Investigator on several federally funded research projects as well as directing numerous state funded research and training projects. Dr. Buzawas expertise encompasses the issue of domestic violence in the United States and globally. She has served as a consultant trainer and speaker to numerous agencies and organizations throughout the world and was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in 2016. Dr. Buzawa is Past President of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology Past President of the Northeast Association of Criminal Justice Sciences and past Board Member for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Carl G. Buzawa is an attorney in private practice. Currently he is Senior Vice PresidentContracts Legal and Compliance at Textron Systems. He received his BA from the University of Rochester his MA from the University of Michigan and his JD from Harvard Law School. With Eve S. Buzawa he is the coauthor of numerous books and articles on the topic of domestic violence. Barbara J. Hart is an attorney advocate scholar organizer and public policy analyst.   She is among the multitude of women activists who co-founded the battered womens movement in the mid-70s. Commencing in 1978 she shepherded efforts to draft and implement civil protection order statutes across the country. For 30 years thereafter she fostered an informal national network of advocates attorneys and judges who collaborated in the development of state and federal law (i.e. criminal civil family and administrative) public policy litigation strategies and best practice professional guidelines designed to protect restore and liberate domestic violence survivors.  For upwards of 25 years she directed several national technical assistance initiatives on violence against women and has consulted in numerous venues on research related to violence against women.  Ms. Hart is a co-founder of several groundbreaking organizations including but not limited to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women the Battered Womens Justice Project the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith and Credit and the Domestic Violence Resource Network. Ms. Hart has authored several hundred papers on domestic violence some of which appear in a collection of her work on the BISCMI.org website. Ms. Hart established the Batterer Intervention Services Network of Pennsylvania convening accountability and monitoring meetings among BIP providers and womens advocates. Her efforts served as a national model for collaborative work between survivor advocates and BIP providers.  She organized the first national meeting addressing both the role of men in the domestic violence movement and standards for BIP services. She co-authored several sections of the federal Violence Against Women Act(s).  She was on the team that developed the Model Code on Family Violence for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. She convened the panel of representatives from a dozen or so Indian nations to produce Violence Against Native Women: A Guide for Practitioner Action.  She also participated in the design and analysis of the first multi-state study on batterer intervention programs (BIPs) for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). She served as a consultant and speaker for numerous federal state and local agencies.  She has received numerous awards and honors among them are several from Presidents Clinton Bush and Obama. In retirement she continues to write monthly columns for the National Bulletin on Domestic Violence Prevention. She was battered.  Her partners violence propelled her into organizing for justice for battered women.