Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence Volume 7

by Leigh Goodmark

Book Overview

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and violence in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520295579
• ISBN13: 9780520295575
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"