Systemic obstacles to battered women's participation in the judicial system: When will the status quo change?

Violence Against Women

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1150-1168

  Gillis, Joseph Roy ^a   Diamond, Shaindl Lin ^a   Jebely, Paul ^b   Orekhovsky, Victoria ^a   Ostovich, Ellis M ^a   MacIsaac, Kristin ^a   Sagrati, Sandra ^a   Mandell, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Dutton Brock LLP   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Immigrant women; Legal judicial system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADULT; BATTERED WOMEN; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; ONTARIO; POLICE; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 33750469709     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206293500     Document Type: Article

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