Response to the Victims of Domestic Violence: Analysis and Implications of the British Experience.

Dwyer, Diane C.

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ERIC Number: EJ513127

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Publication Date: 1995

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Response to the Victims of Domestic Violence: Analysis and Implications of the British Experience.

Dwyer, Diane C.

Crime and Delinquency, v41 n4 p527-40 Oct 1995

Examines problem of domestic violence in Great Britain, which has a stronger feminist movement and a much lower level of stranger-to-stranger violence than does the United States. The prevalence rate of domestic violence is quite similar to that of the United States and the British system has been less progressive in its response. (LKS)

Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Battered Women, Community Control, Community Responsibility, Family Problems, Family Violence, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Police Community Relationship, Public Policy, Responses, Sociocultural Patterns, Spouses

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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