NCJ Number
143975
Date Published
1993
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This article presents one day's journal entries of a staff member at a center for battered women and sexual assault victims.
Abstract
The journal starts at 6 a.m. when the author wakes up feeling tired after less than 6 hours of sleep. She talks with her 6-year-old daughter, bathes, and looks over some of her notes for her qualifying examinations. She arrives at the office at 9 a.m. She receives calls from a battered women who left her husband and needs legal assistance for a divorce and from a victim who wants counseling and asks about legal options. Later she thinks about her role as a legal advocate in a case involving a waitress at a country club and a perpetrator who is a member of the club. At noon she notes that she has been in meetings all morning and will soon see a woman who is an incest survivor. At 1 p.m. she finishes her peanut butter sandwich at her desk, fills out her time sheet, and talks with a former colleague from the Department of Children and Family Services. Later she learns of the assault of the daughter of a colleague from a neighboring agency and speaks with a client who reports that she settled out of court with her husband. In the evening she plays a game of computer monopoly and receives a fundraising call. She falls asleep at 11 p.m.