Earlier this semester, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Research Lisa Young Larance provided training to judges from the U.S., Canada and the Philippines at the 2025 American Judges Association Conference. The training was based on Young Larance's book, Broken: Women's Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair and her decades of practice experience.
A pioneer in the antiviolence intervention field, Dr. Young Larance continues to shape innovative community and prison-based services for diverse violence-involved women. Her scholarship explores topics at the intersection of intimate partner violence, gender, sexuality, criminalization, race, and intervention, while centering the experiences of legal and child protection systems-involved women who have both survived and caused harm in their intimate relationships.