Disabled women and domestic violence as violent crime

Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 233-246

  Radford, Jill ^a   Harne, Lynne ^b   Trotter, Joy ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

crime; disability; domestic violence; inter agency working; specialist domestic violence agencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938527195     PISSN: 09503153     EISSN: 17424909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09503150601025204     Document Type: Article

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