Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Stark, Evan.
2. Buzawa, Eva Schlesinger.

Description

1. 4 volumes; 25 cm.

Summary

1. This comprehensive overview of domestic violence against women and children in America covers the services meant to combat it, the legal approaches to prosecuting it, the public's attitudes toward it, and the successes and failures of systems meant to address it.

Series statement

1. Praeger perspectives

Uniform title

1. Praeger perspectives

Alternative title

1. Victimization and the community response v.1.
2. Family context v.2.
3. Criminal justice and the law v.3.
4. Media and cultural attitudes v.4.

Subject

1. Abused women
2. Family violence
3. Battered Women
4. Häusliche Gewalt
5. Misshandelte Frau

Genre/Form

1. Reference works.
2. Ouvrages de référence.

Contents

1. v. 1. Victimization and the community response -- v. 2. The family context -- v. 3. Criminal justice and the law -- v. 4. The media and cultural attitudes.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.