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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Domestic violence. Westport, Conn. : Auburn House, 1992 (OCoLC)645835363 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eva Schlesinger Buzawa; Carl G Buzawa |
| ISBN: | 0865690014 9780865690011 |
| OCLC Number: | 24377721 |
| Description: | xxii, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The development of social attitudes toward spousal abuse / Arnold Binder and James Meeker -- Battering and the criminal justice system : a feminist view / Demie Kurz -- Screening calls / Peter K. Manning -- Identifying households at risk of domestic violence / Glenn L. Pierce and Susan Spaar -- The courts' response to police intervention in domestic violence / Marvin Zalman -- Arrest and the reduction of repeat wife assault / Donald G. Dutton ... [et al.] -- Arrest as a method to control spouse abuse / Arnold Binder and James Meeker -- Domestic violence : its legal definitions / James B. Halsted -- Innovative approaches to the prosecution of domestic violence crimes : an overview / Naomi R. Cahn -- The preventive impacts of policies for prosecuting wife batterers / David A. Ford and Mary Jean Regoli. The court's response to interpersonal violence : a comparison of intimate and nonintimate assault / Kathleen J. Ferraro and Tascha Boychuk -- Do restraining orders help? : battered women's experience with male violence and legal process / Molly Chaudhuri and Kathleen Daly -- Role of victim preference in determining police response to victims of domestic violence / Eve S. Buzawa ... [et al.] -- Framing and reframing battered women / Evan Stark. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Eve S. Buzawa & Carl G. Buzawa. |
Abstract:
The markedly increased attention focused on violence within families has gripped the concerned interest of not only academic researchers but also the public and its law enforcement and criminal justice segments. Contemporary recognition of the widespread problem of abuse within the home, often dramatically and poignantly detailed, has not, however, led to clear and universally accepted public institutional responses. This authoritative volume presents a comprehensive evaluation of approaches, policies, and practical enforcement measures that have been effected by law enforcement and criminal justice bodies. Among the issues covered in this book are: the development of changes in social attitudes to spousal abuse; the role of the police and the practical interventions they may impose when contacted; the ramifications which decisions to prosecute may have on defendants' subsequent behavior; and the victims' responses to public interventions. It is a current, substantive, and practically instructive volume on a social issue of vital importance.
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