Increasing convictions in domestic violence cases: A field test in Milwaukee

Justice System Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-72

  Davis, Robert C ^a   Smith, Barbara E ^a   Rabbitt, Caitilin R ^a  

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