Talk Delivered February 6, 2012, to Professor D. Kelly Weisberg’s Domestic Violence Class

Abstract

Ms. Pierre Dixon’s speech delivered to Professor Weisberg’s Domestic violence class on her life’s work which included establishing and supervising the Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Task Force from 1991 until 2006. This issue features a transcription of that talk in which Ms. Pierre Dixon describes the challenges she faced in establishing the Task Force and the ongoing challenges prosecutors and domestic violence victims face