In their own words: Battered women's assessment of the criminal processing system's responses

Violence and Victims

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-268

  Erez, Edna ^a   Belknap, Joanne ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLICE; WITNESS;

EID: 0031773262     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.13.3.251     Document Type: Article

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