Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence

You are not alone. As many as 40% of police officers have abused their intimate partner or child. Authorities mostly ignore the widespread violence. But help is out there. My award-winning book "Police Wife" explains why so many officers are abusive, what women can do to increase their safety and how we can help them.

"I loved your book.... This is a book that should be given to the wife or girlfriend of every single male police officer."

- Sgt. Amy Ramsay, Retired, PhD, former president, International Association of Women Police

Awards for "Police Wife" (second edition):

- 2018 Reader's Favorite International Book Awards, honorable mention

- American Book Fest's 2017 Best Book Awards Finalist

- 2018 Global Ebook Awards, bronze

- 2018 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, finalist, best nonfiction crime book category

- 2018 New York Book Festival, finalist

- 2018 Los Angeles Book Festival, finalist

- 2018 San Francisco Book Festival, finalist

- 2017 New England Book Festival, finalist

Awards for the first edition of "Police Wife" include the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Arlene Book Award.

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"5 STARS... SHOCKING.... EYE-OPENING.... You will find yourself shaking your head in disbelief more than once.... Could save a person's life."

- Viga Boland, Reader's Favorite review

"EXCELLENT JOB.... An important read."

- Det. Albert Seng, PhD, Retired, Tucson Police Department, Arizona

"NEEDS TO BE WIDELY CIRCULATED"

- Leanor Johnson, sociologist, Arizona State University, former member, FBI advisory board on police stress and family violence

"POLICE WIFE DELIVERS"

- Staff Sgt. Margaret Shorter, Retired, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, former president, International Association of Women Police

POLICE ARE supposed to be the ones breaking up fights and putting the bad guy in jail. But what happens when they go home? Journalist Amy Morrison lived another side of policing in her marriage to a violent, controlling cop who drove her to the brink of suicide.

In "Police Wife," Morrison and other police wives share their harrowing and inspiring survival stories with award-winning investigative journalist Alex Roslin as he takes you inside the tightly closed police world and one of its most explosive secrets: domestic violence in up 40% of police homes, which departments mostly ignore or let slide.

"Police Wife" gives a rare front-seat look at the amazing struggles and courage of abused police spouses worldwide--from Los Angeles to Montreal, Puerto Rico and South Africa--the ordeals of a handful of intrepid cops trying to change policing from within and why the abuse is an epidemic, one that may be getting worse.

We learn that police officers commit up to 15 times more domestic violence than the public. But many police agencies don't typically fire an officer even after a sustained domestic violence complaint or criminal conviction.

"Police Wife" shows how violence in police families affects us all and is closely linked to botched responses to 911 domestic calls at other homes, police killings of African Americans, officer sexual misconduct and growing inequality in our communities.

ALSO READ ADVICE for survivors, loved ones, advocates and researchers and recommendations for change.

Author: Alex Roslin
Publisher: Sugar Hill Books
Published: 01/02/2017
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780994861764

About the Author
Roslin, Alex: - ALEX ROSLIN is an award-winning journalist who was president of the board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting. He won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Arlene Book Award for Writing that Makes a Difference for the first edition of the book Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Domestic Violence, which he co-authored. The book was also the runner-up for the Hollywood Book Festival non-fiction book award, won silver in the eLit Book Awards and bronze in the INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Roslin is the author of the updated and revised second edition of Police Wife. Roslin has also won three Canadian Association of Journalists prizes for investigative reporting, a gold prize in Canada's National Magazine Awards and nine nominations for CAJ awards and NMAs, including one for his story Killer Cop about RCMP Constable Jocelyn Hotte's murder of his ex-girlfriend Lucie Gélinas. He has worked as an associate producer for the CBC-TV investigative programs the fifth estate and Disclosure and has written for The Montreal Gazette, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Maclean's, L'Actualité, The Georgia Straight, Zoomer, Canadian Geographic, Today's Parent and many others. Connect with Roslin at his blog PoliceDomesticViolence.Blogspot.com and on his Police Wife Facebook page.