Treating female perpetrators: State standards for batterer intervention services

Social Work

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-349

  Kernsmith, Poco ^a   Kernsmith, Roger ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batterer intervention; Domestic violence; Female offenders; Practice guidelines; Social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950772356     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/54.4.341     Document Type: Article

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