Domestic abuse
Subtitle: public policy/criminal justice approaches towards child, spousal, and elderly abuse
By: Suman Kakar.
Publisher: Austin & Winfield
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Family violence -- United States; Family violence -- Government policy -- United States; Family violence -- United States -- Prevention
Description: Domestic Abuse presents important information on the problem of intimate abuse within the American home. The work presents theoretical and analytical explanations for domestic violence. There have been a number of books dealing with spousal abuse. This work deals with violence again children and youth as well as against elderly in their homes. This is an important contribution to the literature and integrates the issue of domestic violence with that of abuse against children, youth and the elderly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-508) and index.