The impact of arrest on domestic assault
By: edited by Eve S. Buzawa, Carl G. Buzawa.
Contributors: Buzawa, Carl G.; Buzawa, Eva Schlesinger.
Publisher: Sage Periodicals Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Newbury Park, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
Subjects: Arrest -- United States.; Domestic relations -- United States.; Family violence -- United States.
Other titles: American behavioral scientist.
Notes: Issued as v. 36, no. 5 (May/June 1993) of American behavioral scientist.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Constraints against family violence : how well do they work? / Richard J. Gelles; value: Identifying offenders in criminal justice research on domestic assault / Murray A. Straus; value: Does arrest deter domestic violence? / Janell D. Schmidt and Lawrence W. Sherman; value: Determining police response to domestic violence victims : the role of victim preference / Eve S. Buzawa and Thomas Austin; value: Battered women and the criminal justice system / Barbara Hart; value: The preventive conceit : the black box in market context / Peter K. Manning; value: Mandatory arrest of batterers : a reply to his critics / Evan Stark.