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system response to intimate partner violence, and to promoting the adoption and implementation of community-oriented policing. The establishment of the Violence Against Women Office (VAWO) and the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, both within the US Department of Justice, epitomizes federal acceptance and Sup-port of the two reform efforts. VAWO has emphasized, among other things, the need for better justice system response to women abused by their partners, the importance of coordination in response at the local level, and the necessity of advocacy and services for victims. COPS has emphasized a problem-solving approach to policing, in which police

AUTHORS'NOTE: This chapter focuses on intimate partner violence against women. It is recognized that some men are victimized by intimate partners, but women are more often victimized, particularly by severe forms of violence. Also, we use the term domestic violence because it is incorporated into the phrase “nexus of community policing and domestic violence." In doing this, we do not exclude other forms of intimate-partner