If violence is domestic, does it really count?

Journal of Family Violence

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-311

  Mihalic, Sharon Wofford ^a   Elliott, Delbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparisons of marital violence studies; Discrepancies in marital violence rates; Marital violence context; Underreporting of marital violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031494963     PISSN: 08857482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022800905045     Document Type: Article

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