While there is an evident trend towards increasing legal responses to wife assault in North America, any change that has occurred has met with controversy, and the challenge remains to improve the circumstances of battered women.
This book offers in-depth coverage of four major themes that address this issue: the historical framework of legal responses to wife assault; police attitudes and action; prosecution, mediation and treatment within the court system; and victims as defendants and participants in the legal system. Each chapter examines past and present policies of a specific branch of the legal system, and discusses their merits and demerits.While there is an evident trend towards increasing legal responses to wife assault in North America, any change that has occurred has met with controversy, and the challenge remains to improve the circumstances of battered women.
This book offers in-depth coverage of four major themes that address this issue: the historical framework of legal responses to wife assault; police attitudes and action; prosecution, mediation and treatment within the court system; and victims as defendants and participants in the legal system. Each chapter examines past and present policies of a specific branch of the legal system, and discusses their merits and demerits.PART ONE: OVERVIEW
Introduction - N Zoe Hilton
Husbands Who Assault - Daniel G Saunders
Multiple Profiles Requiring Multiple Responses
PART TWO: POLICE
Police Intervention and Public Opinion - N Zoe Hilton
The Impact of Police Laying Charges - Peter G Jaffe et al
Irreconcilable Differences - Kathleen J Ferraro and Lucille Pope
Battered Women, Police, and the Law
PART THREE: COURTS
The Criminal Prosecution of Wife Assaulters - David A Ford and Mary Jean Regoli
Process, Problems,ló2
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