The agencies of abuse: Intimate abusers' experience of presumptive arrest and prosecution

Law and Society Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-144

  Guzik, Keith ^a  

^a BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 39449119549     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: 15405893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2008.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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