" Meet me at the hill where we used to park": Interpersonal processes associated with victim recantation

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1054-1061

  Bonomi, Amy E ^a   Gangamma, Rashmi ^a   Locke, Chris R ^b   Katafiasz, Heather ^a   Martin, David ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c King County Prosecuting Attorney ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Decisions; Domestic violence; Gender; Intimate partner violence; Mental health; USA

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; MENTAL HEALTH; VIOLENCE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LAW SUIT; LEGAL LIABILITY; LEGAL PROCEDURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OFFENDER; TRUST; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VICTIM;

CRIME VICTIMS; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052672221     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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