This week, 72 people were booked in to Caddo Correctional Center for various crimes. During the week, many of those booked were picked up on domestic violence charges. Domestic violence is best understood as a pattern of abusive behaviors-including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion-used by one intimate partner against another (adult or adolescent) to gain, maintain, or regain power and control in the relationship. Batterers use of a range of tactics to frighten, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, often injure, and sometimes kill a current or former intimate partner.