Cook: "I don't want him to know I called. You know what I'm saying? That's the point. This sets him off when he knows I called. He rips the shit out of my house." Operator: “We'll tell them, but they'll contact you anyway.” Cook: "He's already tried to kill me three times, I'm really sick of doing this. I'm not going to keep moving and changing my life because of this [expletive]." Cook: "I lived this situation for five years with him. It's always the same thing. If you search my name, you'll see that there are a hundred thousand complaints, but nobody does anything." Operator: “When was the last time you called the police?” Cook: "Um, two weeks ago, and they just told me not to open mine. And everything else." The above transcripts are from several 911 calls made by Deanna Cook over a period of several months while the her ex-husband stalked and terrorized her. Deanna's last 911 call lasted 10 minutes, ending in her death. yet it was his family who discovered his murder. Intimate partner violence (IPV), the researcher's term for domestic violence, occurs more than you might think and is not a uniquely U.S. problem, but a global concern. Why and how is IPV a global concern in the modern era? Surely no woman in her right mind would choose to stay in an abusive relationship? Unfortunately, until recently, IPV was rampant, overlooked as a problem only between partners and not a public health issue. Domestic violence research can enlighten professionals and the public about these latter issues and the varying degrees of factors and influences surrounding IPV36. The more we know about the topic, the better the interventions and preventions available to us will be to reduce dom... middle of paper...). Intimate partner violence, 1993–2010. In the US Department of Justice. Retrieved February 27, 2014, from http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ipv9310.pdfDevries, KM, Mak, JT, García-Moreno, CC, Petzold, MM, Child, JC, Falder, GG, & ... Watt, C. H. (2013). The global prevalence of intimate violence against women. Science, 340(6140), 1527-1528. doi:10.1126/science.1240937More countries have laws banning domestic violence, says UN women's rights official. (2006, November 22). In the United Nations News Center. Retrieved February 27, 2014, from http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20703&Cr=unifem&Cr1=Venis, S., & Horton, R. (2002). Violence against women: a global burden. Lancet, 359(9313), 1172. Violence against women (2013, October). In the World Health Organization. Retrieved February 26, 2014, from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/