Mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence: Safety or retaliatory abuse for women?

Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-78

  Malecha, Ann T ^a,b   Lemmey, Dorothy ^a   McFarlane, Judith ^a   Willson, Pam ^a   Fredland, Nina ^a   Gist, Julia ^a   Schultz, Pamela ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; RISK; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 0034057563     PISSN: 15246094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152460900318993     Document Type: Article

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