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Title Family violence and police response : learning from research, policy and practice in European countries / edited by Wilma Smeenk and Marijke Malsch
Published Aldershot, Hampshire : Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2005]
©2005

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Description xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Advances in criminology
Advances in criminology.
Contents Introduction / Wilma Smeenk and Marijke Malsch -- Challenges of surveying violence against women : development of research methods / Natalia Ollus and Sami Nevala -- Critical issues related to the measurement of intimate partner violence : a clustering analysis of psychometric scores / Juanjo Medina-Ariza and Eduardo Fe-Rodriguez -- Violence against women in France and issues of ethnicity / Stéphanie Condon -- Moving in the same or different directions? Reflections on recent developments in domestic violence legislation in Europe / Liz Kelly -- Violence against women in the Swedish context / Peter Lindström -- Legal processing of domestic violence cases in the Italian criminal justice system / Anna C. Baldry -- Family violence against women in Greece / Sevaste Chatzifotiou -- (Un)Organised responses to domestic violence : challenges and changes in Switzerland / Corinna Seith -- Abuser programmes and violence against women / Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash -- Legislation on family violence and stalking / Marijke Malsch and Wilma Smeenk -- Family violence and police response : learning from research, policy and practice / Wilma Smeenk and Marijke Malsch
Summary "Police response to incidents to intimate partner violence can be critical. This volume investigates the elements in the institutional, legal and organizational context that are relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the reporting of such incidents by victims."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Police domestic violence training
Domestic violence prevention
Domestic violence services
Police and domestic violence
Police / community relations
Domestic violence
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Family violence -- Europe -- Prevention -- Cross-cultural studies.
Family violence -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women -- Crimes against -- Europe -- Prevention -- Cross-cultural studies.
Wife abuse -- Europe -- Prevention -- Cross-cultural studies.
Police -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies.
Family violence -- Europe.
Victims of crimes -- Europe -- Attitudes.
Police -- Europe -- Attitudes.
Police-community relations -- Europe.
Author Malsch, M. (Marijke)
Smeenk, Wilma Hendrika.
LC no. 2005005674
ISBN 0754625060 hardback alkaline paper