Abetting Batterers: What Police, Prosecutors, and Courts Aren't Doing to Protect America's Women

by Jessica L. Klein and Andrew R. Klein

Book Overview

Whatever the number, domestic violence victims remain far too many for a preventable crime. More and more victims of intimate partner violence are reaching out to police, prosecutors and judges only to be sorely disappointed, even betrayed. While laws and programs have multiplied over the last few decades to address domestic violence, the country is getting safer for almost everyone except for women who have, or have had, abusive male intimate partners...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442248270
• ISBN13: 9781442248274
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"