Race, Poverty, and the Crime-Centered Response to Domestic Violence: A Comment on Linda Mills's Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse

Violence against Women

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1331-1353

  Coker, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 28744447161     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204269349     Document Type: Article

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