The impact of relationship status, gender, and minor status in the police response to domestic assaults

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 323-360

  Buzawa, Eve S ^a   Hotaling, Gerald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic assault; Domestic assault arrests; Domestic violence; Juvenile arrests; Police arrests; Police response to domestic assault

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350032598     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564880600798681     Document Type: Article

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