Child custody & domestic violence: A call for safety and accountability

Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-194

  Jaffe, Peter G ^a   Lemon, Nancy K D ^b,c   Poisson, Samantha E ^a,d  

^a Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System   (United Kingdom)

^b California Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

App; Appellate court; Batterer; Domestic violence; Domestic violence case; Evaluator; Good interest of the child; Model code; Presumption; Violence case

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949774990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452231730     Document Type: Book

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