Articles and other materials document women abuse victims being charged under various statutes as accessories or accomplices upon an abuser's entering the family home in violation of a protection order. The rationale for these charges is that the victims supposedly protected under the order have cooperated with the abuser in his violation of the order. Materials are presented in this packet to counter this rationale. The primary argument against bringing such charges is that Federal and State courts have found that the victim of a crime cannot be an accomplice. Applied to the protection order, this would mean that the person whom the protection order is intended to protect cannot be an accomplice in the violation of that order. The roles of victim and accomplice are thus mutually exclusive.