In the Adopted Land
Subtitle: Abused Immigrant Women and the Criminal Justice System (Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Corrections)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: August 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780275977085
Subjects: Social Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Sociology; Abuse - General; Social Science / Criminology; Criminology; Abuse of; Abused women; Case studies; United States; Victims of family violence; Vietnamese American women
First sentence: Phuong began to experience physical abuse by her husband shortly after they were married; he often beat her when she did not satisfy his demand for sex.