Attitudes towards the mandatory arrest response to domestic battering: Gender and institutional differences from a traditional and a women's university

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-49

  Perrott, Stephen B ^a   Miller, Yolanda M ^a   Delaney, Mary E ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; ATTITUDE; AUTHORITY; BATTERED WOMAN; CANADA; COLLEGE STUDENT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031002006     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1997.tb00331.x     Document Type: Article

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