Do arrest and restraining orders work?/
by Eve S. Buzawa and Carl G. Buzawa
- California: Sage Publications c1996
- page 1-285
Includes index.
1.Introduction --2.Identifying offenders in criminal justice research on domestic assault --3.Constraints against family violence --4.Does arrest deter domestic violence? --5.Realities and implication of the charlotte spousal abuse experiment --6.The preventive conceit 7.Battered women and the criminal justice system --8.Mandatory arrest of batterers --9.The role of arrest in domestic --10.Prosecution response to domestic violence --11.Re-abused in a population of court-restrained --12.Effects of restraining orders on domestic violence victims --13.Future directions for criminal justice policy on domestic violence.