Correlates for legal help-seeking: Contextual factors for battered women in shelter

Violence and Victims

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 771-785

  Wright, Caroline Vaile ^a   Johnson, Dawn M ^b  

^a Summa Kent State Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminal justice system; Intimate partner violence; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 72449168506     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.6.771     Document Type: Article

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